December 2024
Long dead, Jackson Pollock finally makes it to Paris
We all know about Blue Poles but a new retrospective at the Musée Picasso shows the troubled path the great abstract expressionist took to painting it.
- Tom McIlroy
October 2024
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
Picasso is uncancellable, says his surviving daughter
In a rare interview, Paloma Picasso recalls growing up with her iconic father, and why she thinks his targeting by the #metoo movement is unfair.
- Celia Walden
September 2024
How this billionaire ran his hedge fund like a baseball team
Steve Cohen’s decision to step back from trading and focus on running Point72 underlines a redemption since an insider trading scandal.
- Costas Mourselas and Harriet Agnew
November 2023
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
September 2023
Sketchbook found behind a bookshelf expected to clean up
Works by Lyonel Feininger have sold for up to $36.2 million, so a book with his works discovered in a Sydney retirement village is set to attract plenty of interest.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
August 2023
$600k for a small, ‘grotesque and meaningless’ painting?
Fred Williams might top Smith & Singer’s big mid-year sale of Australian and international art, but the more modest works have the most intriguing stories.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
July 2023
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- Insider trading
British billionaire Joe Lewis charged in the US with insider trading
The Tottenham Hotspur owner and major shareholder in Australian Agricultural Company is accused of tipping off employees, associates, friends and romantic interests.
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- Joe Miller and Samuel Agini
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- Tech Observed
Bored Ape owners sent broke after NFT price collapse
The cartoon apes that became a status symbol during the NFT boom of 2021 have become a financial albatross for some of their once proud owners, who have plunged into debt.
- Jessica Sier
March 2023
What happened when Paul Smith designed a Picasso exhibition
‘The Collection in a New Light!’ uses the fashion designer’s subversive eye to play tricks with the works of one of the greatest of all tricksters.
- Peter Aspden
October 2022
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
September 2022
NZ gets $268m bonus from death of US billionaire
Julian Robertson, the founder of Tiger Management, had been made a knight by New Zealand and will leave art by Picasso, Dali and Matisse to Auckland Art Gallery.
- Ainsley Thomson
June 2022
The enduring appeal of the misogynist Picasso
‘Women are machines for suffering,’ Picasso told one of his many lovers, Françoise Gilot. Being a woman in the artist’s life was a dangerous occupation.
- Liz Hobday
March 2022
The naked truth? Jeffrey Smart steps up again
Egged on by a National Gallery exhibition, buyers are spending up big on the modernist and a particularly personal work could be landing at just the right time.
- Gabriella Coslovich
Bendigo all shook up over Elvis exhibition
Bendigo Art Gallery needed “something big” to bring back the crowds and nobody is bigger than The King.
- Patrick Durkin
Melbourne turns to art giant Picasso to save city
Visitors to Melbourne will be able to view more than 70 works by Pablo Picasso in a new blockbuster exhibition the Victorian government hopes will bring tourists back to the city.
- Patrick Durkin
February 2022
How this artist became an ‘It Girl’ at age 100
For Francoise Gilot, longevity has the benefit of seeing her work gain the recognition it deserves.
- Ruth La Ferla
January 2022
AI is restoring priceless Picassos – but not everyone is happy
Using new technology, lost artworks are being recreated all over the world. But is it a case of reclaiming what was lost, or rewriting history?
- Kelsey Ables
November 2021
NY auctions mark a return to billionaire-level art prices
After 18 months of behind-closed-doors art deals, billionaire owners are confident enough to take their collections back into the saleroom, starting next week.
- James Tarmy
June 2021
Ben Quilty’s savage van painting to test market resolve
Contemporary artist du jour Ben Quilty’s menacing, anthropomorphic mini-van and another two high-priced Banksy prints are the ones to watch at Menzies upcoming sale.
- Gabriella Coslovich