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.

John Peter Russell’s Souvenir de Belle-Île, 1897, carries an estimate of $1.5 million to $2.5 million in Deutscher and Hackett’s Important Australian and International Fine Art sale on August 16, which could be the biggest of the year so far.