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posted 1 March 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 1 March 2023
Is a large and luscious canvas about to set a new auction record for the acclaimed Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori? Crispin Gutteridge, head of Aboriginal art at auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett, thinks so.
The fame of the late Sally Gabori reached its apogee last year with a grandly-mounted solo exhibition of her work at the...
posted 22 February 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 22 February 2023
Deutscher and Hackett’s Modern and Contemporary sale in Melbourne on Wednesday February 15 scored a great result for John Olsen’s humorous watercolour Mice and Trap which sold for $30,000 ($36,818 including premium), double its high estimate of $15,000. The same work was sold for $7475 (including premium) in 1998, but went unsold...
posted 13 December 2022
Jane Raffen, AASD, 13 December 2022
After 2021’s roller derby-like pandemic-induced scramble, 2022 settled into unfamiliar territory: a boom-time pattern. Launching early and finishing late, Deutscher and Hackett devoured more than $52 million dollars of fine art, delivering a coup de grâce to their competitors' ambitions with equanimity, along with a solid haul of new and significant records,...
posted 8 December 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 8 December 2022
For the first time in 15 years an Australian auction house has superseded the $50 million mark in its annual sales. Bolstered by the sale of two big corporate collections, auction house Deutscher and Hackett has steamed ahead of its competitors, turning over more than $52 million this year, surpassing the boom-time record set in...
posted 30 November 2022
Riah Pryor, The Art Newspaper, 30 November 2022
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Untitled (Seated female figure with long yellow hair), 1921/22
This striking work was created by the German-born artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, who escaped Nazi Germany only to be interned in camps in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia (via the Huyton internment camp near Liverpool, England), before becoming a grammar...
