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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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
$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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Matthew Drummond
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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
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.
- Song Jung-a and Edward White
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
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.
- Patrick Durkin
February 2021
Claude Monet hits the big screen
Hundreds of French impressionist masterpieces feature in a multi-sensory exhibition coming to Sydney.
- Michael Bailey
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.
- Patrick Durkin