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| Australian Art Auction Industry News Archives - 2008 |
| 23 December, 2008 Tough year but Australian art dealers hang in there AFTER a bumper 2007, the Australian art auction market is down nearly 35 per cent this year, with $114.5 million of art works going under the hammer... 19 December, 2008 Indigenous art 'carpetbaggers' targeted by code A CODE of conduct drafted to stamp out unethical practices in the indigenous art industry is open for public comment... 10 December, 2008 Arthur Boyd painting sells for $800k ARTHUR Boyd's landscape painting Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria, has gone under the hammer for $800,000... 20 November, 2008 Top artists move to block dealers selling 'fakes' TWO prominent Australian artists have taken legal action against two Melbourne art dealers to stop them selling allegedly fake works... 13 November, 2008 Catalogue omission prompts suit over Rover Thomas work THE owners of a 1983 painting by Rover Thomas are suing auction house Lawson-Menzies for not revealing details about previous ownership in its June catalogue, which caused the work to be withdrawn from sale... 4 November, 2008 When opportunity shops knock This year, not one but two paintings by famous Australians have been discovered by Texan housewives in their local stores... 23 October, 2008 Surrealist left his mark on art world James Gleeson, Australia's quintessential surrealist artist, died in Sydney at the age of 92. .. 24 October, 2008 Art resale royalties 'may cost indigenous artists' THE estates of Brett Whiteley, John Brack and Fred Williams will be the biggest beneficiaries of a resale royalty scheme.. 21 October, 2008 Alpha males abandon art sales ART adviser Michael Reid calls them the "alpha male business people who need to own more than they want to own".. 16 September, 2008 The royalty treatment Tough legislation will guarantee artists a fair dividend when their work is resold, writes Louise Schwartzkoff. 6 September, 2008 Art auctioneer faces inquiry AUSTRALIA'S leading art auctioneer, Rod Menzies, is being investigated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission following a complaint by his rivals. 30 August, 2008 Slump in sales leaves art auctioneers hanging THERE are too many auction houses to survive an art market crash, key industry players predict as they reflect on this week's poor auction results... 30 August, 2008 Menzies' plan of auction ECCENTRIC 20th-century pop artist Andy Warhol thought a lot about image.... 27 August, 2008 Records, but art market still twitchy ART market jitters continued last night with more than half of the works on auction at Bonhams and Goodman in Prahran failing to sell... 25 August, 2008 Drysdale portrait sells for nearly $2m The 1963 portrait titled Rocky McCormack features a farmer from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales... 8 August, 2008 Artists to be paid for every sale, forever more ...the Federal Government has come good on a promise to share the spoils with artists and their families.... 7 August, 2008 Auction season set to resume The auction season resumes later this month with top-quality catalogues... 1 August, 2008 There's an art to forcing up auction prices Recent revelations about questionable practices in the art auction market... 31 July, 2008 Masterpiece from glorious period to light up auction season FOR more than 100 years, it was displayed quietly in a family home. 30 July, 2008 Only regulation will stop shonks ... says a New York art critic, Ben Genocchio.... 30 July, 2008 Art auction row goes to ACCC LAWYERS acting on behalf of auctioneer Tim Goodman and other key art identities ... 29 July, 2008 Gallery accused of selling indigenous fakes The artist signs his name as Duk Duk - "agile wallaby".... 29 July, 2008 Complaint threatens auction business OVER the past 10 years, Melbourne businessman Rod Menzies has worked assiduously .... 19 July, 2008 'Unseen' Nolans to be lots of interest ON May 29, 1945, a 28-year-old artist called Robin Murray created four paintings of Melbourne's St Kilda beach. 19 July, 2008 Buyer beware The rest of the world is being denied Aboriginal art by outmoded government laws, writes Benjamin Genocchio. 3 July, 2008 Police investigate theft of Australian painting Experts say a stolen painting by renowned Australian landscape artist, Tom Roberts, will be difficult to sell ... 20 June, 2008 Auctioneers withdraw Rover painting over concerns at listing AUCTION house Lawson-Menzies yesterday withdrew from sale a painting.. 19 June, 2008 $6.9m Picasso an Australian record A 1954 work by Pablo Picasso became the most expensive painting sold in Australia .. 18 June, 2008 Art fraudsters seek to keep Toorak flat A COUPLE jailed for Aboriginal art fraud have begun a desperate bid to keep their Toorak apartment.. 16 June, 2008 Heysen works fetch strong prices A dozen paintings by one of Australia's most recognised landscape artists have gone under the hammer.. 15 June, 2008 Picasso's lady to put us on art map A PICASSO up for sale this week could set the record.. 15 June, 2008 Sotheby's profits surge after Christie's quit Melbourne CHRISTIE'S decision to pull out of the local auction game.. 29 May, 2008 Joels has been sold DOOMSAYERS have been quick to declare the art market is about to go into reverse .. 28 May, 2008 Adelaide art lovers start saving THE largest auction of art works by Sir Hans Heysen to be held in Australia in more than a decade will be in Adelaide next month... 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.... |