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Philip Bacon

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

Auguste Rodin, Jean D’Aire, conceived c. 1895, cast 1966, ($110,000), from The Hirst Collection of Australian and International Art, being sold at Philip Bacon Galleries next month.

Brisbane set for biggest art sale in decades

The collection of Jewish refugees Doc and Fritzi Hirst includes works by a who’s who of Australian modern art.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

July 2020

John Schaeffer AO - Art Collector and Philanthropist, 2014, by Evert Ploeg.

Former Rich Lister John Schaeffer dies after being hit by ute

Art and trophy home collector and former Rich Lister John Schaeffer has died after being hit by a ute in Sydney's CBD.

  • 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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