12:00AM | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Sleepers surprise even wideawake dealers, writes Terry Ingram.Australiana buffs turned up in an unexpected show of force at Raffan Kelaher & Thomas's auction of Australian, international and indigenous art in Sydney's Leichhardt last Saturday.
12:00AM | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Provenance not in saleAn illuminating provenance is missing from the key lot of Sotheby's sale of important Australian art to be held in Melbourne on August 25
12:00AM | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
A buyer who said he was setting up a private museum of Aboriginal art in Italy bought close to 80 lots at a sale held by Mossgreen Auctions in the Tea House at Sydney's Royal Randwick Racecourse on Monday night.
12:00AM | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Politics has engulfed the Telstra Aboriginal art awards, writes Katrina Strickland.Could Tommy Watson's large, colourful painting Pirurpa Kalarintja have won the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award?Not in a million years, according to Watson's dealer John Ioannou
12:00AM | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Melbourne's William Mora Galleries has been given the exclusive rights to sell works from the estate of indigenous artist Paddy Bedford, who died at Kununurra last July
14 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Fraser Hopkins has lived with Rocky McCormack's laconic grin for more than a decade
14 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Chatter among a group of young gallery directors about setting up a breakaway event to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair appears to be gaining traction.
14 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
One of Melbourne's longest-standing gallery spaces, Christine Abrahams Gallery in Richmond, is to close.
14 August 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Four institutional collections have been enhanced by items from the historic medal collection of 80-year-old retired Victorian dentist John Chapman, which Noble Numismatics auctioned off in Melbourne on July 22.
14 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland and Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Worth crowing about
14 August 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Individual licences will be required to buy 11 out of 111 Aboriginal artefacts to be auctioned in Melbourne in November.
07 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Getting it straight
07 August 2008 | Terry Ingram. | The Australian Financial Review
ResMed founder Peter Farrell unloads a major artwork, writes Terry Ingram.
07 August 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday plea for rich South Africans to help the poor may have come a little late.Irma Stern
07 August 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Advice on a picture owned by the Queen has been provided to the Tate Britain by an Australian orientalism specialist.
07 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland. | The Australian Financial Review
Contemporary art is growing in popularity, but the idea of turning the Melbourne Art Fair into an annual event has not met with uniform support, writes Katrina Strickland.
07 August 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Sitting in a Sotheby's auction in New York in May and feeling the buzz around contemporary art made Sotheby's head of Australian paintings Georgina Pemberton determined to try to replicate it here.
31 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Sydney art dealer Tim Olsen will ask 10 of his current stable of 40 artists to find new representation, in one of the biggest culls of a gallery stable since the contemporary art boom began to gather pace in the late 1990s.
31 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
The major auction houses close their books this week for the late-August Melbourne auctions.
31 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
The London-based Matthiesen Gallery has done another $1 million-plus painting deal with an Australian art museum, making a total of more than $4 million in Australian sales by the Mayfair art dealership in the past 12 months.View of Bracciano, a sizeable oil painting by the 17th century Netherlandish painter Paul Bril, was offered in a catalogue published by the Matthiesen Gallery last year in association with Stair Sainty of New York
31 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Nursing home proprietor William Bowmore secured homes for most of his European art collection through a combination of donations to local art museums and some offshore sales before his death in January.
24 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Christopher Skase might be gone but some of his art collection remains, writes Terry Ingram.
24 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
The death of Ruth Simon on Sunday at the age of 85 will be seen at least by old-timers in the saleroom as the end of an era.
24 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
The death of Ruth Simon on Sunday at the age of 85 will be seen at least by old-timers in the saleroom as the end of an era.
24 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Christie's might have exited the Australian auction business two years ago, but former local chairman Roger McIlroy has not entirely distanced himself from puffery - albeit a different puffery from that for which the art auction world is renowned.
24 July 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
New director for MonashMonash Gallery of Art has appointed Shaune Lakin as its new director
17 July 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Australia has led the way in promoting contemporary Asian art but local galleries need to do more now if they want to retain this leadership position.
17 July 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
A leading dealer in indigenous art has questioned the way Austrade handled its recent remote community tour for US curators, collectors and gallery owners.
17 July 2008 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Galleries close
10 July 2008 | Terry Ingram | The Australian Financial Review
Bonhams London classical antiquities specialist Chantelle Waddingham visited Australia last October and again in April this year, ostensibly to take consignments from the public.
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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