Indulge in city luxury in this rare Sydney find
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Your seat for the Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks is booked – once you’ve signed on the dotted line for this exceptional property in the landmark REVY building at Pyrmont.
With views to the north across Circular Quay to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the best of both worlds is within easy reach, offering the energy of the city and Star Casino while being positioned on the quieter side of Darling Harbour.
This single level apartment at 8 Darling Island Road is generous enough to accommodate a large family, with five bedrooms, five bathrooms within the 326sqm of floor space, as well as three car spaces. The spacious master suite has the best views of the city, which is in addition to a shared rooftop terrace for entertaining friends. As you might expect, the bathrooms are finished in stone and the kitchen is stainless steel.
Although it’s in the heart of the city, this home also offers a dedicated home office with excellent connectivity for maximum flexibility.
The apartment is in the heritage listed Royal Edward Victualling Yard (REVY) building, designed by Walter Liberty Vernon and opened in 1907. Constructed from solid brick with a sprinkler system and lifts – considered quite innovative for the time – it was used as a warehouse for the navy before it became an office block in the 1970s. It was eventually converted into luxury apartments and is one of the few surviving examples of narrow warehouses in Sydney.
This rare offering could be yours for a cool $20 million.
Address: The Revy Penthouse, 801/8 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont
Price guide: For sale – Guide $20 million
Agent: McGrath Pyrmont – Robert Alfeldi, 0418 982 688
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More than 280 modern and contemporary artworks will be up for sale Friday at Christie’s Post-War to Present auction in New York.
The live sale, which will be held at Christie’s Rockefeller Center sale room, has a low estimate of more than US$27 million and will be led by Frank Stella’s Abra I, 1968, which is estimated to fetch between US$1.2 million and US$1.8 million, according to a news release from Christie’s.
“Abra I is a fantastic example by Stella, a large-scale canvas from the protractor series,” says head of sale Julian Ehrlich. “It engages so many crucial aspects of his practice, including scale, geometry and colour, and has appeal to established post-war collectors and others who are just coming to historical art.”
Ehrlich, who has overseen the semiannual Post-War to Present sale since its first March 2022 auction, says his goal in curating the sale was to “assemble a thoughtful and dynamic auction” with works from both popular and lesser-known artists.
“With Post-War to Present, we really have a unique opportunity to share new artistic narratives at auction. It’s a joy to highlight new artists or artists who have been overlooked historically and be a part of that conversation in a larger art world context,” he says.
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Works from a number of female artists who were pioneers of post-war abstract painting, including Helen Frankenthaler, Lynne Drexler, and Hedda Sterne, will be included. The auction will also include pieces from a group of Black artists from the 1960s to present day, including Noah Purifoy, Jack Whitten, and David Hammons, in addition to a Christie’s debut from Joe Overstreet (Untitled, 1970) and an auction debut from Rick Lowe (Untitled, 2021).
“The story of art is necessarily diverse,” Ehrlich says. “The sale itself is broad, with more than 280 works this season, and it has been fun to think through artists inside and outside of the canon that we can put forward as highlights of the auction.”
In addition to Abra I, other top lots include Tom Wesselmann’s Seascape #29, 1967, (with an estimate between US$800,000 and US$1.2 million); Keith Haring’s Andy Mouse, 1986, (also with an estimate between US$800,000 and US$1.2 million); and Jack Whitten’s Garden in Bessemer, 1986 (with an estimate between US$700,000 andUS$1 million).
“I think of the Post-War to Present sale as being especially dynamic … in the best case, even for someone deeply embedded in the market, there should be works which surprise and delight and are unexpected, as well as celebrated market-darlings and art-historical greats,” Ehrlich says.
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
