September
Blockbuster Monet, van Gogh exhibition headed to Australia
A big cheque from the Malinauskas government is helping the Art Gallery of South Australia take on the National Gallery of Victoria and others.
August
Art market set for biggest week of the year
More than 200 works with a total high estimate of more than $20 million will be auctioned on consecutive nights in a major test of the art market.
July
Are we seeing the decline and fall of Australian Impressionists?
This auction will point to whether the artists whose values were so high for so long have lost their lustre.
May
Lost in New York: What happened to the trophy art market?
By the art world’s own accounting, the spring auction season in New York fell short of even its lowest target as art stars flopped. The one bright spot: women.
October 2024
Iconic images of life, death and football fetch top dollar
A series of auctions suggests the market for big-name photographers is alive and well.
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.
September 2024
$300 still life flowers into a 70-bagger
A forgotten work by a forgotten Australian artist was one of several to do well as the great financial reappreciation of women artists continued at Leonard Joel.
August 2024
How the French really feel about the Paris Olympics
The Games’ problems – food, air-con, ticket prices – seem prosaic, whereas memories are written in poetry.
April 2024
Ad man Peter Clemenger sets Whiteley’s Wren free - for $2m plus
Brett Whiteley’s The Wren is the top lot at Deutscher and Hackett’s first big sale of the year, which has a total estimate of $10 million to $14 million.
January 2024
Artist Ann Thomson, 90, celebrated in her ‘butterfly moment’
The feisty Australian painter’s lifelong dedication to making art will be celebrated in Sydney on Saturday night.
November 2023
Like ‘light fittings’: Murdoch family to sell underappreciated art
Three beguiling paintings that for generations hung in obscurity at a Murdoch family grazing property are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
August 2023
Impressionist Russell’s Souvenir tops $11m-plus sale
A work by the Australian painter who taught Impressionism to Matisse tops Deutscher and Hackett’s August sale, which could prove the biggest of the year so far.
February 2023
‘Australia’s French Impressionist’ to kick off art auction year
After a bumper 2022, a John Peter Russell painting with an estimate of just $7000 will be one of the more closely watched lots.
April 2021
Samsung heirs pledge art and hospitals in inheritance tax deal
The family of Lee Kun-hee has announced a suite of philanthropic donations, including hundreds of millions of dollars for child cancer treatment, an infectious diseases hospital and vaccine research.
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.
March 2021
Monet, Renoir set to draw NGV crowds
The National Gallery of Victoria is turning to French art legends Monet, Degas and Renoir for a major winter exhibition the gallery hopes will bring back big crowds.
February 2021
Claude Monet hits the big screen
Hundreds of French impressionist masterpieces feature in a multi-sensory exhibition coming to Sydney.
June 2020
Reopened NGV to confront racism through art
Those who visit the National Gallery of Victoria for the Van Goghs, Picassos and Dalis may have to confront tough questions about Australia's past and present.