Tributes are pouring in for leading Indigenous art dealer Tim Klingender, who was killed in a suspected boating accident in Sydney Harbour.
Friends and associates confirmed a body found in the water at Watsons Bay, in Sydney’s east, on Thursday morning was that of the 59-year-old.
Melbourne gallerist D’Lan Davidson said Mr. Klingender was “the architect of the market we have today.”
“He leaves behind a huge vacuum for Indigenous art in this country and around the world,” Mr. Davidson said on Friday.
Sydney gallerist Michael Reid said the art community has received the news with “profound sadness.”
“The death of Tim Klingender was an unimaginable and devastating loss to his family and indeed the Australian art-world,” he said….