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Germaine Greer

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
Rosalie Gascoigne, Beaten Track, 1992, estimate $400,000 to $600,000, being auctioned at Deutscher and Hackett next Thursday in Melbourne.

Best year since 2007: Deutscher and Hackett set art auction record

The first million dollar sale for a Rosalie Gascoigne work helped the auction house to $52 million in sales for the year.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

September 2022

Brett Whiteley’s ‘Self-portrait’, 1977, includes a cutting of Whiteley’s actual hair. It has an estimate of $280,000 to $350,000.

Cost of living crisis? Not at this $10m art sale

The market is so strong that Deutscher and Hackett is on track to have the best year for an Australian auction house since before the GFC.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Red, Grey and Orange Composition, c. 1935, estimate $30,000 to $50,000, being sold at Deutscher and Hackett next Wednesday in Sydney 

From German WWII prisoner to important Australian modernist

German-Australian artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack might not be a household name, but his reputation in the art world is expected to deliver strong results for his abstract works.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

November 2019

Clive James was one of Australia's greatest cultural exports.

Clive of Australia

Clive James thrived in Britain because he remained very Australian.

  • The AFR View
Clive James with Kylie Minogue, 1995. One of his abiding passions was for attractive young women.

Clive James had a complex relationship with Australia

Part of a quartet of famous Australians who fled the monocultural tedium of the country in the early 1960s, the writer had a complex relationship with the land of his birth.

  • Andrew Clark
Clive James, born October 7 1939, died November 24 2019.

Clive James: Australian-born man of letters

Clive James. Australian-born man of letters who invented modern television criticism and as a natural performer became a star of the medium himself.

  • The Daily Telegraph

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