Art market and auction

The VIP card gets you into Carriageworks on the Thursday morning. The Paddington galleries placed the good work off their own collector lists on the Wednesday.
I emailed a specialist asking whether a lot had been relined and had a reply in forty minutes, plus an invitation to the pre-view. A friend asked the same department for an estimate range and heard nothing.
Asked what a piece went for at a dinner in Woollahra and the table went quiet. The director emailed me the number the next morning. The rule is the medium, not the question.