Monday 20th February Published by: Art Collector Written by: Emma O’Neill The Lowenstein Collection of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art will be offered for auction at Mossgreen in Melbourne on Tuesday 7 March 2017. Art collectors Tom and Sylvia Lowenstein will be presenting over 250 works for auction. Their extensive collection includes artworks by John Olsen, Charles […]
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Saturday 4th March Published by: Herald Sun Written by: Alice Coster Facebook Didn’t Love Masterpiece CHARLES Blackman’s painting, Women Lovers, has hung above the bed of art collectors Tom and Sylvia Lowenstein for the past 20 years. The lovers’ entwined bodies were inspired by Blackman’s muse and lover, Genevieve De Couvreur, a 19-year-old art student he married […]
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Friday 3rd March Published by: Australian Jewish News Written by: Zelda Cawthorne Photos by: Peter Haskin Acclaimed Sydney artist Garry Shead and his wife, Judith, were apprehensive the first time they met Melbourne accountant Tom Lowenstein. That was in 1991, when Shead was getting famous, but far from rich. Would Lowenstein – the best in the business when […]
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Wednesday 1st March Published by: BBC News Facebook has blocked an Australian auction house from advertising an acclaimed artist’s painting depicting nude figures. Charles Blackman’s oil work Women Lovers features two nude women resting on a bed beside a cat. Art broker Mossgreen tried to promote it on Facebook, but the social media network rejected […]
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Tuesday 28th February Published by: The Australian Written by: Michaela Boland In the latest instance of social media prudishness, Facebook has forbidden a Melbourne auction house from advertising a 37-year-old Charles Blackman painting of a black cat and two nude women in repose. The oil on paper, thought to feature the artist’s lover at the […]
Monday 9th July Written by: Tom Lowenstein Read the latest article from Tom Lowenstein.
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Saturday 11th February Published by: Australian Financial Review Written by: Sally Patten Photos by: Josh Robenstone ACCOUNTANT TOM LOWENSTEIN SELLING ART TO MAKE SPACE FOR MORE CREATIVE PAYMENTS Tom Lowenstein is no garden variety art collector. Not for this accountant, now 80, the usual practice of buying pictures from galleries, auction houses or even directly […]
Wednesday 9th May Read the response from Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean.
Monday 14th February The Australian Artists Association (AAA) hereby makes its submission in response to the Media Release No.022 issued by the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Serves and Superannuation, The Hon. Bill Shorten MP on 1 February 2011.
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I have just spent the best part of Sunday afternoon reading Associate Professor Josephine Caust’s wonderfully comprehensive Discussion Paper written for Platform Papers (The New Platform Papers No. 2, March 2022 Edited by Julian Meyrick) – Arts, Culture and Country.