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Ray Crooke

December 2019

Antony Gormley’s Small Yield sold for $549,000, including premium, on expectations of $350,000 to $450,000.

Magic millions pay off for art auctioneers

Million-dollar sales like John Brack’s Yellow Legs are increasingly keeping auction houses in clover.

  • Peter Fish

November 2019

'Commencement of colonisation of South Australia' was painted on handmade paper by the founder of Adelaide Colonel William Light (1786-1839). Estimate: $90,000 to $120,000 .

First painting of Adelaide found in a camphor box

Missing for 182 years, the oldest painting of Adelaide – by the city's founding father Colonel William Light – will be auctioned on Sunday.

  • Peter Fish

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