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David Hockney

October 2024

Balmoral Beach, Sydney Harbour, by Ethel Carrick Fox, (undated), carries a pre-sale estimate of $80,000 to $100,000 in Gibson’s auction in Melbourne on October 27, 2024. The work last sold in 1991 for less than $10,000.

Ahead of major NGA show, Carrick Fox’s work set to soar

“Balmoral Beach, Sydney Harbour” by Ethel Carrick Fox was bought for less than $10,000 in 1991. It could sell for at least 10 times that amount this weekend.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue
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

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

November 2022

A David Hockney painting belonging to Paul Allen and estimated at $US12 million.

Paul Allen’s art collection sets record with $1.5b sale

Christie’s auction offered a trove of treasures from the Microsoft co-founder including some by Cézanne, Klimt and Vincent van Gogh.

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  • Robin Pogrebin

October 2022

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

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

September 2021

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

February 2020

David Hockney's The Splash will be be auctioned at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on February 11.

David Hockney's 'The Splash' sells for $44.5 million

Fugitive billionaire Joseph Lau has managed to offload David Hockney's Los Angeles pool painting The Splash for $44.5 million. 

  • Elizabeth Howcroft

January 2020

David Hockney's The Splash will be be auctioned at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on February 11.

Fugitive billionaire selling $38m Hockney

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau will be the seller of one of the most expensive artworks at the year's first major auction.

  • Katya Kazakina

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