Australian Art Sales Digest - A database of over 300,000 works of art by over 11,400 Australian and New Zealand artists offered for sale by auction over the last thirty years.
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     : Latest Art Auction News [Click on link for full news item]      : 10 May, 2008 Monumental market in bronze and stone  : And we all thought Sidney Nolan's haunting images of the bushranger ..      :      : 10 May, 2008 Doubts over Picasso sale  : ROD Menzies, the owner of art auction houses Deutscher-Menzies and Lawson-Menzies, makes no secret of his ambition to be the market leader ..      :      : 30 April, 2008 Shimmering addition to landscape collection  : THE National Gallery of Australia added another Frederick McCubbin painting ..      :      : 25 April, 2008 Top end of market still thriving  : It was a big week for the art auction market ..      :      : 24 April, 2008 Art sale proves the value of sculpture  : AUSTRALIAN sculpture's increasing popularity was further confirmed last night when a bronze work by Brett Whiteley's best friend, artist Joel Elenberg, sold at auction for $384,000...      :      : 23 April, 2008 Surprise result lights up market  : A NEW auction record for the post-Impressionist Ethel Carrick Fox was set last night...      :      : 19 April, 2008 Indigenous art sales stymied by heritage laws, say auction houses  : LEADING art auction houses say that changes to Victorian heritage laws affecting the sale of indigenous art ...      :      : 17 April, 2008 Blanchett loses art, but not lot  : FOR a few minutes last night it was Cate Blanchett's art collection and not her performance that caught the crowd's attention ...      :      : 17 April, 2008 Art to help Pro Hart  : One of Australia's biggest art collections went to auction yesterday. Pro Hart's $10 million collection was sold ...      :      : 5 April, 2008 Priced to sell - after some arm-twisting  : Seemingly oblivious to the recent sharemarket mayhem and the fallout from crashing stockbrokers and their hapless clients, Sotheby's has managed to line up a catalogue studded with interesting and mostly fresh pictures for its Sydney sale on April 22      :      : 28 March, 2008 Fresh as a daisy, bar a pretentious minx  : ARMS reaching out, body stretched, she looks almost as though she's about to take a dive.      :      : 26 March, 2008 O investors, where art thou? Sale's still life  : After a record 2007, art auctions are off to a sluggish start, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.      :      : 20 March, 2008 Goldie fetches record price  : An oil painting considered to be one of the finest by renowned artist Charles Goldie brought a record auction price at a sale in Auckland....      :      : 19 March, 2008 Tasmanian art collection sold  : A set of paintings bought by the late Launceston art collector Diana Cameron has sold for more than three times the expected price....      :      : 19 March, 2008 Red faces as auctioneer loses a Streeton  : IT IS every art auctioneer's worst nightmare — the loss of a precious painting consigned for sale by a private collector....      :      : 18 March, 2008 Record price paid for Drysdale canvas  : An oil on canvas by Australian artist Russell Drysdale has sold for a record $1.68 million at auction in Sydney....      :      : 15 March, 2008 Olley hits the spot with veggie buyers  : WITH the big art auctioneers yet to launch their sales in an art market that is unlikely to completely shrug off the effects of a near-25 per cent plunge in the sharemarket ....      :      : 14 March, 2008 Lawyers offer lessons in legacy  : WHEN Albert Namatjira died in 1959, his descendants missed out on a share of the celebrated artist's estate....      :      : 8 March, 2008 Now it's Drysdale's turn to set a record  : Last month Albert Tucker topped the million-dollar mark for the first time at Bonhams & Goodman....      :      : 26 January, 2008 Market vapours threaten the boom in art  : The final figures are in, and they show the Australian art auction market turned over $175.6 million last year, up 68 per cent compared with the $104.9 million for 2006....      :      : 24 January, 2008 Art chief to head auction house  : SOTHEBY'S Australia will be headed by a woman for the first time in its 40-year history....      :      : 04 January, 2008 Aboriginal art expert moves on  : ART auctioneer Menzies Art Brands is parting company with its Aboriginal art specialist, Adrian Newstead....      :      : 24 December, 2008 Davidson's star rises  : THE appearance of two paintings at a London auction by South Australian-born Bessie Davidson may bring to light other works by the artist....      :      : 12 December, 2007 Hot artists  : 2007 has been a boom year for spending by Australian collectors, writes Antony Davies...      :      : 12 December, 2007 Boom tips $171m into art mart  : Big and small art auction houses have enjoyed record turnovers this year, writes Gabriella Coslovich. ....      :      : 7 December, 2007 Aussie art sales end year on a high  : The booming Australian art market has ended the year on a massive high....      :      : 6 December, 2007 Arkie Whiteley sells for $1.68m  : WHEN Brett Whiteley's massive painting Arkie Under the Shower went down the gurgler at a Christie's auction ....      :      : 2 December, 2007 Boom in bogus works  : As Australian art fetches record prices at auction, art fraud is also booming....      :      : 2 December, 2007 Art imitating art  : About one in 10 paintings on the market are not the real deal....      :      :      :      : 27 November, 2007 Whiteley work fetches double reserve...      :      :      ; 18 November, 2007 Aussie classics in demand...      :      :      ; 15 November, 2007. Rover Thomas work Bungullgi sells for $450K...      :      : > The cover of the 2007 print version of the Australian Art Sales Digest features John Brack's The Bar sold for $3.1 million, Sotheby's on April 11, 2006 setting a new Australian art sales auction record price. --->
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The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of past auction results of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty-five years. Our data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses, and extends back to the early 1970s.
NEW. View full sale results for an individual sale, by lot number, price, artist, title or estimate.


Ian Fairweather, Beach at Manicahan, 93 x 104 cm, sold by Sotheby's Sydney 22/04/2008, lot no. 9, price $960,000 a new record price for the arti st.

Latest Sale Results..
($50,000+. Click here for all current year results)
Date Auction Title
Total $m
%Sold
04-May-08 Bay East Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Sydney
$ 0.240
59%
28-Apr-08 Monthly Fine Art & Antiques, Lawsons, Sydney
$ 0.135
63%
23-Apr-08 Australian, International & Aboriginal Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne
$ 4.030
71%
22-Apr-08 Collectable Art, International Art Centre, Auckland
NZ$ 0.240
80%
22-Apr-08 Important Australian Art, Sotheby's, Sydney
$ 8.760
64%


Forthcoming Sales..
(Click here for a full current year auction listing.)
17-May-08 Affordable & Decorative Pictures (& Collectables), Davidson Auctions, Sydney
18-May-08 The Mallesons Stephen Jaques Collection, Bonhams & Goodman, Sydney
18-May-08 Fine & Decorative Arts, Philips Auctions Australia, Melbourne
22-May-08 Important Paintings & Sculpture, Art+Object, Auckland
24-May-08 A2 Art, Webb's, Auckland
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