August 2023
Sculpture smashes $1m barrier as ‘grotesque and meaningless’ painting brings $950k
Joel Elenberg’s depiction of his wife Anna Schwartz set an auction record for a sculpture in Australia, while Arthur Streeton’s cigar box lid had plenty of admirers.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
July 2023
Eager buyers snap up Perceval’s Williamstown tugboats
The two paintings by the artist closely bound up with the Boyd artistic dynasty smashed estimates even though they were done after the 1950s.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
June 2023
The fascinating link between this Australian artist and a US heiress
An upcoming auction of a landscape work by Fred Williams uncovers an unexpected tie to the heir of the Life Savers confectionary fortune.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
April 2023
Olsen, Arkley and other art stars headline $10m sale
How the market reacts to John Olsen’s death will be tested when he joins a who’s who of modern Australian art - and a few Lucian Freuds - in Smith & Singer’s sale.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Remarkable marble flag sets standard for contemporary art
Reko Rennie, Del Kathryn Barton and a hanging flag sculpted from marble outperformed at Menzies’ Important Australian and International Art auction in Melbourne last week.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
December 2022
The 10 top art sales of the year
A record number of women made it into the top ten auction prices this year. That number was two.
- Gabriella Coslovich
Best year since 2007: Deutscher and Hackett set art auction record
The first million dollar sale for a Rosalie Gascoigne work helped the auction house to $52 million in sales for the year.
- Gabriella Coslovich
October 2022
26 paintings sell to one bidder as Cbus sale winds up
An entire exhibition of desert art works from 1990 was the last tranche from Cbus’s collection.
- Gabriella Coslovich
September 2022
Cost of living crisis? Not at this $10m art sale
The market is so strong that Deutscher and Hackett is on track to have the best year for an Australian auction house since before the GFC.
- Gabriella Coslovich
July 2022
Cbus expects mixed returns in great Australian art sale
The top 100 works from the superannuation giant’s collection represent an A-Z of Australian art, and illustrate its varying fortunes as an investment class.
- Gabriella Coslovich
February 2022
Sidney Nolan, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, come out of the blue
Get in quick: A selling exhibition of works by some of Australia’s most acclaimed artists is set to surprise when it opens in Melbourne next month.
- Dan F. Stapleton
November 2021
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NAB to sell 2500-work corporate art collection
The bank expects to make $10 million from its vast collection of mainly 1970s Australian art and will put the money into climate resilience programs.
- Gabriella Coslovich
September 2021
May Gibbs blooms anew as locked down bidders spend up on art
The creator of Snugglepie was among several female artists that wowed Bonhams online only auction of Australian art.
- Gabriella Coslovich
August 2021
Pictures by the real Dorian Gray make market debut
Two rare portraits by convict artist Thomas Wainewright, the English dandy and suspected serial killer who was the inspiration for Dorian Gray, are on sale for the first time.
- Gabriella Coslovich
April 2021
Records fall as millions spent on paintings, diamond
Three million-dollar paintings, six new auction records and Australia’s first million-dollar diamond were all realised in Sydney on Tuesday night.
- Gabriella Coslovich
Old guard leads as art market gets set for $16m week
Four million-dollar-plus paintings by blue-chip Australian artists headline a big week for a hot art market, with a 25-carat sparkler aiming for seven figures too.
- Gabriella Coslovich
March 2021
Sumner’s back, this time bearing trust account
There’s no mention of Mossgreen on the website of Paul Sumner’s new business, but the undischarged bankrupt claims to have learned a key lesson from the collapse.
- Gabriella Coslovich
July 2020
Records aplenty as online art auctions come of age
Wealthy collectors stuck in Australia, investors parking money in tangible assets and a captive audience watching online delivered a remarkable result for Deutscher and Hackett.
- Gabriella Coslovich
November 2019
Sotheby’s sale could hit $10m mark with big-ticket paintings
The auction house hopes to kick off the end-of-year sales with a bang as it brings several $1 million-plus Australian artworks to the market.
- Peter Fish
March 2019
'Museum quality’ Fairweather heads for $1m
A rare painting from Ian Fairweather will be one of the top lots at Deutscher and Hackett's April sale of Australian art.
- Peter Fish
