STEPHANIE BURNS IS APPROVED TO VALUE [CLASS(ES) of OBJECTS] FOR THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT’S CULTURAL GIFTS PROGRAM
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Stephanie Burns Fine Art is an established Australian art gallery which specialises in European Masters and contemporary Australian art. Stephanie Burns is an approved valuer for the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, Stephanie also conducts art valuations for private clients. The Cultural Gifts Program encourages gifts of significant cultural items to public art galleries, museums and libraries by offering donors a tax deduction for the market value of their gifts. The Secretary to the Department of Communications and the Arts appoints valuers to participate in the program. Valuers are required to carry out valuation work with diligence and competence and act at all times with honesty, integrity and impartiality.
Stephanie Burns Fine Art also offers private clients the service of valuing art. Some of the reasons a private client may have a need for an art valuation are for the insurance of personal assets, Self-managed Super Fund requirements or for a property settlement.
Some of the most important artists of the twentieth century are represented in our collections; Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Bonnard, Maillol, Degas, Denis, Kollwitz and Tapies. To give an example of the rarity and quality of some of these works the Bonnard lithographs from “Daphnis and Chloe” were commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, one of the most important art dealers in the history of art. They were commissioned in 1898, it took four years for Bonnard to draw the complete series onto transfer paper. They were then transferred to stone by the famous printer Auguste Clot, one of the most technically brilliant and inventive printers of the time. “Daphnis and Chloe” was one of the first pastoral novels which was written by the Greek, Longus in the 2nd or 3rd century BC. Our incomplete edition is numbered 231/250 on Van Gelden Holland wove paper bearing the watermark “Daphnis et Chloé”. Complete sets only come onto the market very rarely as most are already held in museums and libraries all over the world.
This is true of many of the other sets of original prints that we hold, the Poemes by Maurice Denis, the aquatint etchings of the monotypes of Degas and the lithographs drawn by Aristide Maillol for Dialogues des Courtesanes which were printed on Montval paper – a paper whose process was invented by Maillol himself. All of these works were projects initiated by Ambroise Vollard, some were completed after his death. All of these rare prints illustrate famous texts from history.
Occasionally the gallery has been fortunate enough to acquire works made prior to the twentieth century of breathtaking quality. Among these are the etchings of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Paul Cezanne, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn and Eugène Delacroix. There was also a woodcut by Albrecht Durer. Cezanne only ever produced five etchings while these other great artists are well known for the large number of prints they made during their lives and are considered some of the greatest printmakers of all time.
Our British collection includes works by later twentieth century artists with international reputations; Lucian Freud, Peter Howsen, John Bellany, Nicola Hicks, Marcelle Hanselaar and we have engravings of some of the most famous paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner. All the engravings are printer’s proofs made prior to the publishers’ details being added to the main edition. Half of the engravings are proofs made during the engraving process; they show the initial stages of the drawing on the plates.
Over the last decade the gallery has represented a number of Australian artists and are able to source works not shown on the website if requested by clients. The artists are Brett Bailey, Stephanie Burns, Claudia Chaseling, Lex Dickson, Merran Esson, Penny Harkness, Michael Kelly, Jeffrey Makin, Camille Masson-Talansier, Peter O’Brien, Bruce Radke, Simon Reece, Paul Selwood, Malcolm Smith, David Tucker, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Maryanne Wick, Heidi Yardley and Falaka Yimer.
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