Auction house Deutscher and Hackett has consigned the year’s most expensive and historically significant painting, Russell Drysdale’s Going to the pictures, from 1941, which could set a new record for the artist when it goes under the hammer in November.
Estimated at $2.5 million to $3.5 million, the painting has been in the same family since it was first bought by the prominent Melbourne art critic and journalist, the late Clive Turnbull, at Drysdale’s landmark 1942 exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.
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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.
