Joel Elenberg Australia, 1948-80
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About Joel Elenberg
Born in 1948 in Melbourne, Joel Elenberg had no formal art training and took up painting soon after finishing school in 1962. He travelled to the Middle East in the mid-1960s and held his first exhibition in Melbourne in 1969 at Australian Galleries followed by another in 1971. He also exhibited in Sydney in 1978 and 1982 and in Brisbane in 1979. Elenberg's career as an artist and sculptor was tragically cut short with his death in Bali in 1980, aged just 32.
In our database, 208 works by Joel Elenberg are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1978, of which 158 (76%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,135,227 for Mask 1 (1978) sold by Smith & Singer in August 2023. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Joel Elenberg are held by the Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia and a further three major public national galleries (see list below).
Joel Elenberg is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 405
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 307
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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