{"id":792,"date":"2009-11-27T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=792"},"modified":"2009-11-28T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T05:58:48","slug":"sophie-gralton-painting-sells-for-50000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2009\/11\/sophie-gralton-painting-sells-for-50000-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Gralton painting sells for $50,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"One<\/a>

One of Sophie Gralton's paintings (not the one auctioned at the Black Dog Institute annual gala dinner)<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of weeks ago I wrote<\/a> about Sydney artist Sophie Gralton<\/strong> who was rejected by the Australian version of The Apprentice<\/strong><\/em> for one of the show’s challenges.<\/p>\n

Well, I bet the men’s team of Morello, Gavin and Sam – who chose two other artists instead of Gralton<\/a> only to be out-sold by more than $25,000 by the women’s team – would be kicking themselves to learn that a painting by Gralton sold for $50,000 at auction in Sydney last night.<\/p>\n

The painting was bought by a mining magnate at the annual shindig put on by the Black Dog Institute<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>at the Westin Hotel in Sydney, which was emceed by the ABC’s Julian Morrow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gralton donated the artwork to the institute at the request of a childhood friend whose 14-year-old son committed suicide last year.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Gralton painting that sold for $50,000 titled If You Had Been His Own Boy<\/p><\/div>\n

The auction was going well and when the bid reached $38,000 Gralton walked on stage to explain that she used to push the 14-year-old boy, who I won’t name, in a pram when he was a baby. As coincidences go, the boy in the painting was actually the teenager’s little brother adding another level of poignancy to the occasion.<\/p>\n

Organisers then re-opened the auction and the bids rocketed to $50,000, all of which was donated to fund research into the impact of depression on teenagers.<\/p>\n

Wonder what Morello<\/strong>, who won The Apprentice<\/em>, would think about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Sydney artist Sophie Gralton who was rejected by the Australian version of The Apprentice for one of the show’s challenges. Well, I bet the men’s team of Morello, Gavin and Sam – who chose two other artists instead of Gralton only to be out-sold by more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-pop-culture","category-society","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}