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Cressida Campbell

September

Bonhams sold Arthur Streeton’s Mosman Bay, c1907,for $500,000, the top of its estimate range.

‘Mosman Bay’ stars on a sobering night at Bonhams art auction

Arthur Streeton’s beach scene brought almost half the total take as many works went unsold in Sydney; Leonard Joel gathers 133 lots for this year’s Women Artists’ sale.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

August

Arthur Boyd’s Colonial Poet Under Orange Tree, 1979, measuring more than 1.5 metres high, is estimated at $250,000 to $350,000 in Smith & Singer’s August 21, 2024 auction in Sydney. The work is being sold from the estate of the late Sir James Wolfensohn.

James Wolfensohn’s Australian classics lead $14m art sale

The canvases by Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams adorned the Australian former president of the World Bank’s Manhattan apartment and lead Smith & Singer’s big mid-year sale.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

June

Big name Indigenous artists bring the love to Redfern

A high-end auction brings Indigenous art to the people, while Menzies hopes Kirk Douglas can be their hero.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

Selling a painting like it’s a mansion a plus for elite bidders

Del Kathryn Barton’s anatomy-bending work will be the tenth to be offered at private auction by Smith & Singer, a concept that borrows from high-end property sales.

April

Arthur Streeton’s Sunlight at the Camp is estimated to sell for between $1 million and $1.5 million.

Streeton stuns at $10m art auction

Arthur Streeton’s historic scene took top honours, but works by Bronwyn Oliver and Nicholas Harding were the big surprises.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue
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Cressida Campbell’s Burley Griffin House, Avalon, 1999, is a unique colour woodblock print on paper. It is estimated to fetch between $140,000 and $180,000 in Smith & Singer’s 17 April Important Australian Art auction in Sydney.

Streeton, Campbell works promise hefty returns in $12m art sale

An Arthur Streeton painting bought for £7 has hopes of $1.5 million at the year’s first big sale.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

May 2023

Russell Drysdale’s Children Dancing, 1950, has never been traded at auction before, and comes from a private collection in Melbourne. It carries the highest estimate ($1.3 million to $1.6 million) of all the 91 lots in Deutscher and Hackett’s May 3, 2023 auction of Important Australian and International Fine Art, in Melbourne.

Drysdale dances to heights but art market turns cautious

A Russell Drysdale proved the first work to pass the $2 million mark at auction this year, but for the second night in a row the overall result was underwhelming.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

December 2022

Ethel Carrick, Sur La Plage, On the Sands, Dinard, 1911, sold for more than double it’s high estimate at $1,996,591 at Smith & Singer.

The 10 top art sales of the year

A record number of women made it into the top ten auction prices this year. That number was two.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

September 2022

Jesse Trail, The Tower Carcassonne Night, 1927, on the secondary market for the first time, with an estimate of $2000 to $3000, being sold at Leonard Joel’s Women Artists auction next Tuesday in Melbourne.

Which woman artist will make an impact this time?

If the last couple of years are any guide, a sale dedicated to women artists could bring overdue recognition to a few more forgotten Australian painters.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

August 2022

Cressida Campbell, Garden Island, 1990, estimated at $200,000 to $300,000, at Smith & Singer’s auction next Wednesday night.

Great expectations for contemporary art stars old and new

Jordan Kerwick was barely known a year ago, now he will join Cressida Campbell as the two hot Australian contemporary artists test the market at an upcoming sale.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Margaret Preston, Coastal Gums, 1929, sold for $500,000 hammer on an estimate $180,000 to $240,000.

Art liquidation sale delivers Cbus bumper $8m return

Margaret Preston was among seven artists to set auction records in the first tranche of the super fund’s sale of its collection of Australian art.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

July 2022

Cressida Campbell

Why artist Cressida Campbell repainted a $500k work for free

Before a 35-year-old woodblock painting went to auction, she fixed it up and ensured a windfall for its owner.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
John Brack, Three Egyptian Women, 1975, has an estimate of $100,000 to $150,000.

Cbus expects mixed returns in great Australian art sale

The top 100 works from the superannuation giant’s collection represent an A-Z of Australian art, and illustrate its varying fortunes as an investment class.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

April 2022

Cressida Campbell, The Verandah, 1987, estimated at $140,000 to $180,000.

Cressida Campbell leads way as living artists fly high

The work of living Australian artists was at the forefront of fierce bidding at two major auctions last week with Cressida Campbell leading the charge.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

March 2022

Brack, Smart and Quilty to test market strength

Menzies hopes the hot art auction market will deliver up buyers for several big-name works that have failed to sell in recent years.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
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April 2021

‘There is enormous appetite’: art market revels as more records fall

By anyone’s measure, last week was exceptional for Australia’s secondary art market, with $25.8 million in sales, 16 artist records and a new high for an internet bid.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

November 2020

The love of Bunny's life now top lot for Smith & Singer

Rupert Bunny’s portrait of his French muse could set a new record for the artist at a $10 million-plus sale. Hopefully it will avoid the fiery end of its predecessor.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

July 2020

Questionable Preston still life pulled from sale

Questions from Saleroom sparked Australia's newest auction house – chaired by Campbell Newman – to pull a Margaret Preston still life that was top lot in its upcoming sale.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

June 2020

Lewis Morley, Christine Keeler, at Morley's London Studio, 1963, sold for $19,000 (hammer) against a low estimate of $10,000, at last week's Deutscher and Hackett timed online auction of The Patrick Corrigan Collection of Australian Black and White Photography.

Online art auctions surprise on the upside

The sums art buyers are willing to spend online have more than doubled in a few weeks, but phone bidders are still winning the big auctions.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

May 2020

Del Kathryn Barton's Archibald Prize winning portrait of actor Hugo Weaving, Hugo (2013), to be sold next Wednesday night in Deutscher and Hackett's first online "solo auction", at an estimate of $120,000 to $160,000.

When is an art auction not an art auction?

Auction houses are experimenting with new sales models that blur the line between private and public. But is this lack of transparency good for artists?

  • Gabriella Coslovich

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