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Andy Warhol

November 2024

“Dancing Pumpkin” by Yayoi Kusama was unveiled on Saturday in the National Gallery of Victoria’s front forecourt.

Polka-dotted pumpkin could be NGV’s most expensive piece of art

The Smorgon family operates Australia’s biggest glasshouse, so their financing of the five-metre sculpture by 95-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, worth over $10 million, makes sense.

  • Michael Bailey

October 2024

Les Nymphéas, by Claude Monet.

Monet, Van Gogh star as international auctions heat up

The 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in Hong Kong set an Asian auction record for two of the world’s most cherished artists, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

September 2024

‘Mr Paparazzi’ collection brightens up dull market

A famous image of Princess Diana on a yacht, Chinese contemporary paintings, German Expressionism and a silver throne are the highlights of two upcoming sales.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue and James Thomson

November 2023

Pablo Picasso’s Femme à la montre, 1932, signed Picasso (upper left); fetched the second highest price at auction for the artist.

Picasso sells for $215m, despite a sagging art market

The 1932 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was on the auction block for four minutes as three collectors fought to gain the upper hand.

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  • Zachary Small

February 2023

Andy Warhol took a camera everywhere, and recorded many of his conversations. Detail from: Andy Warhol, 1975, New York.

Andy Warhol was the original social media influencer. Here’s why

The pop art star obsessively photographed his everyday life decades before it became de rigueur. A new exhibition in Adelaide focuses on those photos.

  • Michael Bailey
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October 2022

Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, 1975, sold for $85,000 (hammer), at Menzies’ prints and multiples auction in Sydney last week. 

Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger save the day

Andy Warhol’s prints of Mick Jagger and Ingrid Bergman found buyers, but Tracey Moffat’s set of 10 giant-sized photos proved a bridge too far for the market.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Tracey Moffat, Body Remembers, 2017, image (i) Spanish Window, part of the complete suite of 10 images being sold at Menzies’ prints and multiples sale on Wednesday October 12, with an estimate of $350,000 to $450,000.

Record expectations for Tracey Moffatt photo series

The Indigenous artist’s suite of 10 works has been consigned from the Balnaves Collection and has an expected range of $350,000 to $450,000.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

September 2022

Liz Truss came into office on September 6 saying she wanted to snap the economy out of years of stagnant growth with deep tax cuts and deregulation.

How forex markets made an idiot of Truss

The pound will rebound once inflation is under control. It is very hard to say the same thing about Trussonomics.

  • Jim O'Neill

May 2022

Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”.

Warhol painting of Marilyn sells for a record $280m

The Marilyn Monroe painting became the most expensive 20th century artwork to sell at auction.

  • James Tarmy and Chris Rovzar

November 2021

Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 work “Wheatstacks,” to be offered in the dedicated sale “The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,” in New York, November 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II, is estimated at $US20-million to $US30-million.

NY auctions mark a return to billionaire-level art prices

After 18 months of behind-closed-doors art deals, billionaire owners are confident enough to take their collections back into the saleroom, starting next week.

  • James Tarmy

September 2021

Harry Oviss in his St Kilda Road apartment in 2014.

Family sells 70 years of accumulated artworks

Melbourne businessman Harry Oviss didn’t sell a single item in his vast collection; that job has fallen to his children.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

A Queen’s ransom? $1m Warhols to test hot prints market

A showstopping set of Andy Warhol prints are set to test the limits of the hot market for prints when they headline Menzies sale with hopes of $1 million.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

June 2021

Ben Quilty’s savage van painting to test market resolve

Contemporary artist du jour Ben Quilty’s menacing, anthropomorphic mini-van and another two high-priced Banksy prints are the ones to watch at Menzies upcoming sale.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

April 2021

Lee Kun-Hee was known for splurging when he saw a work worth buying.

Family art stash could help pay one of the world’s biggest tax bills

The Samsung dynasty has until the end of the month to unveil how it plans to finance one of the world’s largest inheritance-tax bills.

  • Yoojung Lee

March 2021

Digital artworks by Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann, an American graphic designer. “We are in a very unknown territory,” says Noah Davis, specialist in post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s.

Crypto-art becomes the new cultural currency

Forget Van Gogh, Rembrandt and even street artist Banksy – the buzzword these days for serious collectors is non-fungible tokens.

  • Laurence Dodds
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August 2020

Whiteley taken by Shark? Bollocks

A few calls by Saleroom reveal that contrary to Smith & Singer's claims, the top lot in their upcoming sale was never actually owned by Greg Norman.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

February 2020

An After Warhol print of Jacqui Kennedy.

Having faith in fakes

Frauds, forgeries and fakes have been around for thousands of years. But what are we to think when a fake becomes even more famous than its original?

  • Lydia Pyne

January 2020

"Masterpiece" (1962) by Roy Lichtenstein, seems like a tongue-in-cheek joke about his own career. Now Lichtenstein's prints are among the most copied around.

The market for fake fine art prints is surging

Art experts warn that technological advances have made faking prints easier than ever, and keeping track of them virtually impossible.

  • Milton Esterow

November 2019

Jane Holzer at an art event in New York City: art collecting is her passion.

Meet the Warhol superstar behind the NGV’s summer blockbuster

Baby Jane Holzer wishes she’d listened when Warhol told her to spend a mere $20,000 on a Basquiat – but at least she got into Haring early.

  • John McDonald

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