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posted 21 September 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 21 September 2022
Cost of living pressures? Nowhere to be seen at Deutscher and Hackett’s auction last week. Collectors splashed out more than $10 million on art, fuelling five new artists’ records, and quieting fears about a post-lockdown market slump. The discretionary budgets of Australia’s wealthiest are clearly strong enough to fund travel...
posted 7 September 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 7 September 2022
Big-ticket items often get most of the attention at art auctions. Works by the likes of Smart, Streeton, Whiteley, Williams. But go looking beyond these towering figures, go wandering through the underbrush so to speak, and you may find historical gems and remarkable stories. Deutscher and Hackett’s auction next Wednesday in...
posted 25 August 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 25 August 2022
Jeffrey Smart’s famed portrait of his friend Germaine Greer is on the market for the first time since it was painted in 1984.
With an estimate of $1 million to $1.5 million, the work, which was recently on loan to the National Gallery of Australia for its Smart retrospective, could well set a new auction record for the artist.
It...
posted 4 August 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 4 August 2022
Seven fresh records, including one that has propelled modernist painter Margaret Preston into the half-million-dollar club, have made the first of the Cbus art collection auctions a resounding success.
Preston’s Coastal Gums, 1929, a brilliant spray of red blossoms from the native Corymbia ficifolia tree, sold for $500,000 (hammer),...
posted 25 July 2022
Kerrie O'Brien, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 July 2022
An extraordinary collection of Australian art, including works by Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Margaret Preston and Brett Whiteley, is about to go to auction with an estimated value of $9 million.
It’s being sold by the Construction and Building Unions Superannuation (Cbus), one of Australia’s largest industry superannuation funds, and was put...
