Geoffrey Smith and Gary Singer’s first major art auction as, well, themselves rather than as Sotheby’s Australia, was an undoubted success last week, pulling in $5.7 million (hammer), making it by far the highest value auction of the year.
Full marks too to the Smith & Singer team for comic inventiveness. Saleroom has noted the amusing efforts of publicists before, and continues to be entertained by their output. Smith & Singer’s post-sale press release revved up the auction records coining exciting new categories.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
