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posted 23 August 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2023

posted 12 August 2023

Megan Neil, The Australian, 12 August 2023 As a luxury investment, art earns top marks. In fact, art is now the best-performing “investment of passion” in property consultancy Knight Frank’s ranking of luxury collectable assets, following a 30 per cent rise in global art prices over the past year. Yet, investment is not what drives most art collectors. It has more to do with what art consultant...

posted 2 August 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 2 August 2023 If any painting can set a new auction record for Australian Impressionism, Chris Deutscher believes it’s among the 67 eclectic artworks he will put under the hammer in Melbourne at an aggregated estimate between $10.8 million and $15.3 million. The undoubted star of Deutscher and Hackett’s August 16, 2023 auction in Melbourne is John...

posted 20 April 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 20 April 2023

posted 29 March 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 29 March 2023 Glamour artworks by women dominated Deutscher and Hackett’s Important Australian Indigenous Art auction in Melbourne last week, propelling the overall result to a decade-high total of $3.262 million. Women artists scored four of the evening’s top five prices, and set most of the new artist auction price records. Interest in their...