About Mossgreen Auctions

Mossgreen Auctions specialises in single owner auctions for collections covering fine art and antiques. Services include auctions held in our stylish multi-level building at 310 Toorak Road South Yarra, to on-site auctions at the owner’s property or staged events in hired premises tailored to suit the collection.

With nearly 25 years auction experience with International and Australian auction houses, Mossgreen Auctions director Paul Sumner is available to advise and personally manage the sale of your collection.

We offer realistic vendor terms and personalised and imaginative marketing strategies that ensure the very best results.

Auction statistics prove that collections often fetch much higher prices when kept together as a collection.

Mossgreen Auctions has handled many of the most significant single-owner collections in recent years including:

The Ray Mitchell and Julian Sterling auction in February 2007 where the sale total was an Australian record for any antiques auction at 4.4 million against a pre-sale estimated total of 2.1 million.

The company holds many individual Australian art auction records, including the highest price for any living Australian artist-John Olsen’s “Love in the kitchen”- 1969, sold for $1.089 million and the auction record for Australia’s most acclaimed artist- Sir Sidney Nolan, when the company sold- Kelly Outlaw 1955 for $1.45 million

Mossgreen Auctions has averaged in excess of 90% sold by lot and well over 120% by value, averaged out over all of its single owner auctions. These statistics are well beyond the accepted market averages of 70-80% for other auctions.

If you are looking to sell a collection,then prior to breaking up the collection elsewhere, consult the name you can trust- Mossgreen.

Mossgreen also holds two important multi-vendor Australian art auctions per year, two Fine antiques and jewellery auctions, and one Important Asian Art auction per year. These auctions offer superbly presented and fully researched catalogues coupled with imaginative marketing and the same personalised approach that is the company’s signature.

‘Interior Decorator’ Auctions are held every two months at the company’s secondary auction location- 94 High street Prahran. These sales encompass the mid- value and collectors markets and cover all fields from antiques to quality contemporary furnishings, as well as Asian art, jewellery and Australian and International art.

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Mossgreen Specialists

Contemporary Aboriginal Art Specialist

Asian Art and Antiques Specialist

Oceanic, Tribal and Early Aboriginal Art Specialist

Shaun Dennison
+61 410 501 857

Ray Tregaskis
+61 418 885 188

Bill Evans
+61 417 674 559

Shaun Dennison is a passionate art collector, having started collecting Aboriginal art in the mid 1990s. He was Aboriginal Art Specialist at Christie's auction house from 2004 to 2006 where he established its Aboriginal art department with the inaugural sale in 2004. During that time he took exhibitions to New York, Paris and London, as well as Sydney and Melbourne. After Christie’s Shaun set up christie+dennison with Leo Christie and has held a number of exhibitions in Sydney. Shaun has been working with Mossgreen auctions since 2007. His broad knowledge of the Aboriginal art market together with his abundant enthusiasm has gained the respect of Aboriginal art lovers and collectors worldwide.

Ray Tregaskis began collecting Asian art in Europe in 1975 and opened his first gallery in Sydney in January 1979. Ray and his partner Victoria have travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe over the past thirty years, holding many exhibitions nationally and internationally with Ray also writing numerous articles on various aspects of Asian antiques. Ray is a long standing member of the AAADA and a Valuer of Asian Art Under the Cultural Gifts Scheme for the Commonwealth Government. He has also valued the Asian collection at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Korean collection at the Auckland Museum, The Chinese Collection at the University of Queensland and the Asian Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Bill Evans has over 40 years commercial experience in the fields of Oceanic and Tribal arts and is a specialist in Aboriginal artifacts and early Aboriginal art. Based in Sydney Bill Evans travels the world consulting to many private collectors and attending the main International Tribal and Oceanic Art fairs. Bill is the senior expert for the annual Early Aboriginal and Tribal/Oceanic arts auction held in Sydney each year in August

International Art Specialist

Senior Valuer and Head of Valuations Department

Australian Furniture and Works of Art Specialist

Martin Gallon
+61 403 364 024

Ed Clark
+61 408 313 497

Graeme Dodd
+61 414 960 332

Martin Gallon spent 17 years with Sotheby's as Head of Victorian, Scottish and Marine Paintings in London and later as Managing Director Sotheby's Australia. Martin is now Managing Director of Martin Gallon International Art, the only specialist European picture gallery in Australia, dealing in British and International oil paintings and watercolours from 17th Century to the present day. Martin is a member of the AAADA and acts as guest auctioneer to Masterpiece Auction House in Jakarta Indonesia.

After nearly 40 years as a dealer of European antiques in Melbourne, Ed Clark has ceased trading in this field and has joined Mossgreen as senior valuer and head of Mossgreen valuations department. Ed also has extensive knowledge in the field of Australian and Colonial silver, an area in which he still trades, and he has been involved with many of the major exhibitions held at public institutions in this category. Ed has also been involved with many high profile auctions over the years, not least the famous ‘Indian sale’, an unforgettable auction of a collection once owned by the Maharajah of Mysore, sold in Melbourne in 1976.

Graeme Dodd is a specialist in Australian colonial furniture, Australian Decorative Art and Australian History. For over 30 years he has written and published widely, exhibited at both antique fairs and private exhibitions as well as provided professional assessments and interview data for TV programs as well as valuations for public and private clients. He consults with collectors and institutions guiding the selection of quality early Australian pieces. Many of Australia’s galleries and institutions exhibit pieces Graeme has sourced. He is a passionate advocate of Australian antique furniture and decorative arts collections as a means of documenting and appreciating historical and cultural Australian stories. He continues to operate one of the few specialist Australian Antiques Galleries in The Rocks, Sydney

Head of Australian Art and VIP Art Client Services

Jewellery and Watches Specialist

Alison Renwick
+61 412 363 431

Ray Schlager
+61 414 621 606

Alison Renwick has had a long career in the art market both in Australia and overseas. She has run her own private art consultancy for the last twelve years working for Governments (local and foreign), professional groups, institutions and private clients. Her company specialised in buying and selling fine art, collection management and advice on dispersal and rationalising of collections. Prior to this she worked at Sotheby’s for nine years in Melbourne, Germany and London where she was involved with such prestigious auctions as the von Thurn und Taxis sale in Regensburg and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor valuation. She was then appointed a specialist in the Vertu, Portrait miniatures and Russian Silver department in London. Renwick was also a founding member of the Art Consulting Association of Australia; a committee member of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2007-2009 and since 2007 is one of the Australian committee members for the OMI artist residency in America. She is a registered valuer with JATVQ

Ray Schlager has been a presence in the art and jewellery world both Internationally and Nationally for more than half a century. After beginning his career as a dealer, he then worked as a restorer to Kozminsky for many years, becoming a Director in the 1970’s. In the early 1980’s he opened Schlager jewellery shop in the Royal Arcade, Melbourne, specialising in the sale of signed pieces from famous European jewellery houses such as Faberge, Cartier, Chaumet, Van Cleef and Arpel. Schlager has also exhibited in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and is a current member of the AAADA.

Mossgreen Staff

Paul Sumner - Director

Amanda Swanson - Director

Paul Sumner has twenty five years experience working in International and Australian Auction Houses, and was previously Managing Director of Sotheby’s innovative auction house in Hammersmith, London and before that was Managing Director of Sotheby’s Australia.

Amanda Swanson has a Bachelor of Arts (Fashion Design) and twelve years experience in fashion, marketing and the arts industries. She managed her own couture jewellery and accessory design business for five years prior to assisting and managing various commercial art Galleries in London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Cathryn King - Front of House Manager

Deanna Cook- Finance Manager

Irina Agaronyan - Gallery Assistant

Cathryn joined the company in February 2010 and has a long history in administration. Having worked within the antiques industry in London at Mallets of Bourdon House, Cathryn was previously with Abercrombie & Kent Australia as well as working for 8 years with Tiger Mountain Nepal and was permanent staff on Operation Drake.

Deanna has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Adelaide, majoring in International Business and Marketing. She has extensive experience in the arts industry, beginning at Sotheby’s London and later Sotheby’s Melbourne, working in both the finance and marketing departments as Finance Assistant and Advertising and Production Manager. Most recently, she was Gallery Manager for Savill Galleries, Melbourne.

Irina joined Mossgreen Gallery in 2010 as Gallery Assistant. She has a bachelor in Visual Arts, specialising in Art Theory and Drawing, and a certificate III and IV in Business Administration. Irina has worked as a gallery assistant and curator in several leading contemporary art galleries in Melbourne.