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Own a symbol of our fair Lady’s life of glamour and love LIZ WALSH GOING UNDER THE HAMMER
Lot 119 is a George III red
lacquer Chinoiserie
decorated long case clock;
Details: J. Stansbury,
Leominster. 18th Century
English. Estimate: $4000-$6000
Lot 223 is a
Linda Klarfeld
bronzed ballet
dancer. Estimate:
$1000-$2000
Lot 217 is an Albert Tucker (1914-1999) painting – Landscape with parrots. Estimate: $15,000-$25,000.
Lot 281
is a strand of
Paspaley South
Sea pearls.
Estimate:
$7000-$9000
ADVERTISER.COM.AU SATURDAY APRIL 7 2018 NEWS 23
GIFT: Lady June Porter with Sir Robert Porter in 1980.
AS A former lady mayoress ofAdelaide, the late Lady JunePorter lived a glamorous, gen-erous life.
She loved art, fashion, in-terior design, classical balletand travel. She was also a greatphilanthropist.
And her last gift to the stateis an auction of the contents ofher North Adelaide apartment,where she spent her last threedecades and enjoyed hostingelegant soirees. Lady Porterdied, aged 98, in October lastyear and her estate will be auc-tioned at the Art Gallery of SAon Sunday, April 22.
Her nephew, James Porter,said it was fitting that the auc-tion would be held at the ArtGallery because it was the lo-cation of her final outing.
“The last trip out of herapartment was within theweek she died and it was to theArt Gallery to launch a fashionfund there,” he recalled.
“We had to get her into awheelchair and she gave aspeech, which was very well re-ceived, and then she went backhome and said: ‘You knowwhat? I’ve done my bit now’.Her time had come.”
Herself a renowned fash-ionista, outfits from her ward-robe will be auctioned alongwith almost 400 lots of furni-ture, fine art, decorative artsand jewellery.
A nurse during the WorldWar II, Lady Porter marriedSir Robert (Tom) Porter whowas Lord Mayor of Adelaidefrom 1968-71. The couple spenttime living in India and trav-elled to many parts of theworld. Mr Porter said while theauction would be a sad day forthe extended family, it wastime to move on. “It is the endof an era,” he said.
“A lot of people knew myaunt and really liked her andthis will provide an oppor-tunity for those who want to, tobe able to buy one little part ofwhat is a large collection tohave for themselves.
“(But) there are some veryinteresting pieces of Indianand Chinese art works that willalso interest international buy-
ers.” Mr Porter said there werea couple of pieces that epito-mised his aunt that he wouldbe bidding on come April 22.
John Albrecht, managingdirector of auctioneer LeonardJoel said the collection wasavailable to view at Lady Por-ter’s penthouse apartment inNorth Adelaide (which is alsoon the market), to registeredbidders.
He said a visit to the apart-ment left him with the im-pression of an immaculatelymanaged residence, perfectlydecorated and punctuatedwith fine English and Europe-an decorative arts. “Equally,
the hanging walls present bothAustralian art and internation-al elements from June’s travelsabroad,” he said.
“But what I remember mostas we began the task of cata-loguing and presenting thisbeautiful collection are all thewonderful framed photo-graphs of her, her husband andso many adventures capturedover so many decades and lo-cations; a collection that ifproof were needed, spoke of alife lived with perpetual en-ergy, grace and intellect.” Thecatalogue can be viewed atauctions.leonardjoel.com.auPAGES 52-53: MORE AUCTION NEWS
Nugget of truth in accidentA HIGHWAY was closed for12 hours after a truck contain-ing a million chicken nuggetscrashed into a car and flipped.
The B-double truck, on itsway to a McDonald’s distri-bution centre, hit a car in thecity-bound emergency stop-ping lane of the Hume High-way at Epping, in outer
Melbourne. The truck crashedthrough the centre medianbarriers and flipped onto itsside, before coming to restacross the northbound lanes.
The driver and his dog es-caped unscathed while the sta-tionary car wasn’t occupied.
All 20 tonnes of nuggetswere binned.
Seniors ballet class on point TAKING ballet classes in olderage has numerous health ben-efits, a trial has found.
Queensland Ballet andQueensland University ofTechnology have released theresults of their joint three-month project incorporating10 Ballet for Seniors classes.
It found participants had
higher energy levels, greaterflexibility, improved postureand a sense of achievement.They reported feeling happier.
Performance psychologistand former professional balletdancer Professor Gene Moylesaid movement, be it dance orother forms of exercise, wascritical for better ageing.
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