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posted 5 November 2020

Maggie Raworth, Nine News, 5th November 2020A rare Australian painting - one of just a handful in existence - will soon go under the hammer, with the Melbourne auction house selling the work estimating it will fetch millions. Painted by Russell Drysdale in 1941, artwork Going to the Pictures is up for sale for the first time since it was purchased almost 80 years ago. With an estimated value of...

posted 27 October 2020

Watch as Henry Mulholland, Lynne Clarke and David Stein reveal the stories behind Russell Drysdale's iconic painting 'Going to the pictures' 1941, the highlight of Twenty Classics of Australian Art + Important Australian and International Fine Art.   Auction in Melbourne - Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 7pm.

posted 24 September 2020

Sydney Morning Herald, Nick Miller, September 24 2020 Lynne Clarke, daughter of renowned Australian artist Russell Drysdale, has a vivid memory of ‘going to the pictures’ as a young child in the 1940s. “I remember seeing Pinocchio and having nightmares for years,” the 82 year-old says. “I found it horrifying. I didn’t like going to the cinema much.” She laughs. Back then, the movies were a big...

posted 24 September 2020

Australian Financial Review, Gabriella Coslovich, 24 September 2020 Auction house Deutscher and Hackett has consigned the year’s most expensive and historically significant painting, Russell Drysdale’s Going to the pictures, from 1941, which could set a new record for the artist when it goes under the hammer in November. Estimated at $2.5 million to $3.5 million, the painting has been in the same...

posted 20 August 2020

Outstanding results from Deutscher and Hackett’s latest timed online auction prove that collector enthusiasm and demand remain remarkably strong, despite ongoing COVID-19 related economic challenges. The single-owner sale, The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art, London: Part II, featured 64 works of art - predominantly eucalyptus bark paintings from Maningrida, Yirrkala and...