Menzies are celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2018 with some extraordinary offerings from both private and company collections. The auction with 142 lots will be held on 26 April in Melbourne. There are impressionist gems from the Sir George Tallis...
Posted on April 5th, 2018
Deutscher + Hackett kick off the 2018 fine art auction season with a finely curated offering of 117 lot on 18 April in Sydney. They include some sublime Australian impressionist works by husband and wife team Ethel Carrick and Emanuel Phillips Fox, a g...
Posted on April 3rd, 2018
Australia's best known Kiwi Russell Crowe is taking a somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to the sale of his most eclectic collection. It contains 227 personal items, from art, movie props and costumes, sports memorabilia, jewellery, watches, guitars, mu...
Posted on March 26th, 2018
Menzies' auction on 30 November in Sydney offer 186 lots presenting a wonderful variety of artworks at price points that will suit all budgets. You could aspire to major works by Australian masters like Jeffrey Smart or Fred Williams (whose "Waterpond...
Posted on November 21st, 2017
One of Australia's most prolific 20th century artists, Sidney Nolan remains, one of our best known, most revered and loved. Perhaps also one of our greatest exports, living at "The Rodd" in Wales until his passing in 1992. With the passing of his widow...
Posted on November 13th, 2017
The end of the year brings a bounty for the astute art collector: the next 4 weeks will be packed with fine art auctions. Bonhams, Deutscher + Hackett, Menzies and Sotheby's combined alone will offer more than $ 30 million worth of art in this end of y...
Posted on November 7th, 2017
No rest for the team at Deutscher + Hackett: just three weeks after the phenomenal Fairfax auction follows their mixed vendor sale. It is a tightly curated auction with 78 lots, starting off with a bang with two rare colonial works on paper. Lot 1 sho...
Posted on September 11th, 2017
Deutscher + Hackett secured the privilege to offer the finest artworks from one Australia's most distinguished private collections: that of the late James O. Fairfax AC. The 54 lots offered on 30 August in Sydney represent a master class in Australian ...
Posted on August 22nd, 2017
The 97 lots in Sotheby's winter auction on 16 August present a beautiful bouquet of some of Australia's most revered artists. The front and back cover alone are enough to make you swoon: you are greeted by Arthur Boyd's "Moby Dick Hill" from 1949 (lot ...
Posted on August 3rd, 2017
writes Mark Kearny in the Bendigo Advertiser on 2 August 2017. An eleventh hour donation from an anonymous white knight has saved the Castlemaine Art Museum from immediate closure, with the $250,000 gift ensuring its doors stay open for at least two mo...
Posted on August 3rd, 2017