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Patrick White

August 2024

Vanity, c.1912 by Emanuel Phillips Fox is the cover lot in Deutscher + Hackett’s August 28 auction in Melbourne. Its estimate is $350,000 to $550,000. The work is being sold from the permanent collection of the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in Langwarrin, Victoria.

Offloading Murdoch art treasures can be a tricky exercise

Does selling art donated by a wealthy benefactor like Dame Elisabeth Murdoch discourage future donations? This gallery is about to find out.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

November 2023

Different Directions, 1964, by Yvonne Audette, carries an estimate of $120,000 to $160,000 in the catalogue for Deutscher and Hackett’s November 22, 2023 auction in Sydney. A diptych, the work measures 128 x 161.5 cm overall. 

Antipodeans old and new carry hopes at end-of-year sales

Smith & Singer is hoping to end the year with a bang to trump Deutscher and Hackett as the top-selling auction house of the year.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

March 2022

Jeffrey Smart, Dampier II, 1966-1967, estimate $350,000 to $450,000, being auctioned by Smith & Singer in Sydney on April 12.

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

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