Deutscher and Hackett pushed ahead with its biggest auction of the year just as Melbourne was ordered back into lockdown and it paid off handsomely.
At the eleventh hour the auction was funnelled online and on the phone, with only staff and auctioneers at the company’s Melbourne gallery last Wednesday night. Despite the challenging conditions, the auction made a total of $7.18 million (hammer), more than $2 million above the sale’s low estimate.
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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.
