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posted 11 October 2014
Following decades of dealer experience in Australia, we have built many longstanding and trusting client relationships. Lex Aitken's consignment in Sydney of his substantial collection of works by the British abstractionist Bridget Riley, August 2013, demonstrated his belief and trust in our ability to reach international markets and achieve truly international prices from Australia. The sale of...
posted 10 October 2014
'Australia led the pack of the top 10 most expensive works of fine art sold at auction in August, according to the artnet Price Database.'
Jeffrey Smart, an Adelaide-born painter who died last year in Italy at age 91, took second and third place of the top 10.
In the final week of summer's official third month, Deutscher and Hackett, with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, sold Smart's Self...
posted 28 September 2014
JEFFREY Smart’s Self-Portrait at Papini’s last night became the second painting by the late painter to sell for more than $1 million at auction.
posted 10 September 2014
Deutscher and Hackett won this battle with a stunning result of $1.26 million IBP for the self-portrait, a new record for a Smart at auction.
posted 28 July 2014
An early and important Margaret Preston, painted in 1929, and two historic Roland Wakelins have joined the line-up for Deutscher and Hackett’s Sydney sale on August 27.
Other highlights will include Brett Whiteley’s Orange Fruit Dove, Fiji from 1969, Lloyd Rees’s Landscape from 1945, and Clifton Pugh’s Feral Cat
