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posted 17 February 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 17 February 2021
Australia’s art auctioneers learned to live with uncertainty last year and proved adept at it, boosting their online activity and ending the year on a surprising high with a total turnover of $108.2 million, a tolerable $3 million down on 2019’s takings. As if to emphasise the lessons of 2020, Melbourne went into its third...
posted 10 December 2020
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 10 December 2020A pandemic, a punch-up, a chute of new records, and a toppling at the top. It’s been a year like no other for Australia’s art auction industry, a year of operatic proportions that drifted at times into soap opera, a year of rapid change and adaptation. The single greatest shift was one experienced across many industries. The...
posted 19 November 2020
19 November 2020, Australian Financial Review, Gabriella Coslovich
The packed November auction season was off to a flying start last week with Deutscher and Hackett posting its highest auction total for the year and the highest value Melbourne sale in a decade. The 63-lot auction last Wednesday night, featuring twenty classics of Australian art, pulled in $13 million (including buyer’s premium),...
posted 12 November 2020
Nick Miller, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2020A painting of a rural family heading off to a night at the movies has tied the record for the sale of a Russell Drysdale work with a hammer price of $2.4 million at auction in Melbourne – just as the city returns to cinemas after the pandemic lockdown.
Drysdale's Going to the pictures, from 1941, had been tipped to set a new record for the...
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...
