Australian Art Auction Industry News Archives

Australian Art Auction Industry News Archives - 2007 (Refer to scrolling headlines on Home page for later news items.)
14 November, 2007.	Indigenous works become grey area ...	About one in 10 paintings on the market are not the real deal. Liz Porter meets the woman who puts suspect art under the microscope
10 November, 2007.	Art-forging couple go straight to jail...	A TOORAK couple who funded their lavish lifestyle by forging Aboriginal art and selling it through auction houses for more than $300,000 spent last night behind bars
24 October, 2007.	Couple accused of selling forged paintings...	A TOORAK couple are standing trial over allegations that they sold four forged paintings
12 October, 2007	John Brack getting hang of work, play...	THE two most famous pictures by Melbourne artist John Brack have been reunited on a handshake between the National Gallery of Victoria and an arch-rival.
10 October, 2007.	A place in the sun for a late bloomer...	An exhibition set for Japan is more than a first for indigenous art, writes Steve Meacham
28 September, 2007.	Donation of $6.6m for Australian art is unreal...	THE largest collection of Australian surrealism ever assembled has been given to the National Gallery despite its owner being a trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation.
26 September, 2007.	Artworks canvass the colour of money ...	THE paintings market is still brimming with prosperity if last week's Menzies auction in Sydney is anything to go by.
13 September, 2007.	Williams painting sells for record $1.86m...	Auction house Deutscher-Menzies says Williams's Landscape with Water Ponds showcases the consummate skill of the artist.
05 September, 2007.	Works of art inspired by the junkyard...	RECYCLED junk art sculptures by the late Sydney artist Robert Klippel are back in the news, with an exceptional piece from a 1970 series of five coming up for auction
30 August, 2007	Brett Whiteley work the Gogh...	A PORTRAIT of artist Vincent Van Gogh by Brett Whiteley has sold at auction in Melbourne for more than $1 million
28 August, 2007	$1.8m painting stays offshore...	EUGENE von Guerad's famous Tasmanian painting The Great Lake has sold to a private Melbourne buyer for $1.86 million.
23 August, 2007	Spring bidding budding...	The coming week is a whopper for Australian art, and while all the auction action takes place in Melbourne, Sydney art fanciers will be watching with keen interest
16 August, 2007	Hammer shy: big-name works go begging...	AFTER a year of extravagant records being set in the secondary art market, Tuesday night's auction at Joel Fine Art was a painfully marked contrast
13 August, 2007	Art investors to feel the pinch...	AFTER a year of extravagant records being set in the secondary art market, Tuesday night's auction at Joel Fine Art was a painfully marked contrast
10 August, 2007	Collections lose to dealers' delight ...	IN April last year Gerard Vaughan, director of the National Gallery of Victoria, announced on ABC radio his intention to bid at auction for a masterwork by 20th-century Melbourne artist John Brack
9 August, 2007	Shaun Gladwell skate DVD worth up to $90,000...	A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky at Bondi Beach will be the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia
3 August, 2007	Call for Great Lake painting to stay in Tasmania...	The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery says a colonial painting of Great Lake being auctioned later this month should remain in the state
25 Jul, 2007	National Gallery of Australia snares the Possum...	The National Gallery of Australia last night paid $2.4 million for Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s huge painting Warlugulong at a Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne.
25 Jul, 2007	Aboriginal painting fetches record $2.4m...	A PAINTING that hung for 20 years in a bank cafeteria sold at auction in Melbourne last night for $2.4 million.
14 Jul, 2007	The artful dodger's trail of misery....	STEPHEN KEHOE, a well-known fixture in Sydney's artistic circles, has an unquenchable passion for art and music
9 Jul, 2007	Dobell 'original' on eBay.....	STEPHEN KEHOE, a well-known fixture in Sydney's artistic circles, has an unquenchable passion for art and music
7 Jul, 2007	Possum painting to beat Emily's record....	THERE'LL be plenty to go dotty over next week when Sotheby's in Woollahra shows off paintings and artefacts from its coming 286-lot auction of important Aboriginal art
5 Jul, 2007	Winning bid...	ONE of the largely unknown indicators of the surging auction market is the number of paintings that never get to auction
4 Jul, 2007	Loose Change...	The Brett Whiteley juggernaut rolls on. After the $3.84 million sale of Whiteley's The Olgas for Ernest Giles through Deutscher-Menzies ...
15 Jun, 2007	The hammer falls, a record tumbles … for now...	The Brett Whiteley juggernaut rolls on. After the $3.84 million sale of Whiteley's The Olgas for Ernest Giles through Deutscher-Menzies
14 Jun, 2007	Art heist overshadows Whiteley record...	POLICE are investigating a major art heist after a $1.3 million painting was stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW.
24 May, 2007	Aboriginal painting breaks the $1 million barrier...	AN INDIGENOUS artwork has broken the $1 million price barrier for the first time, with a painting by central Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye selling for $1,056,000 at an auction in Sydney last night.
19 May, 2007	Breakaway auction house packs 'em in...	FLEDGLING art auctioneer Deutscher and Hackett has embarked on its maiden outing and seems to have wasted little time ...
15 May, 2007	Whiteley record looms in art frenzy...	A GALLIPOLI watercolour claimed to portray Simpson and his donkey, and tipped to draw bids as high as $50,000 at auction next week, may depict an obscure New Zealand medic.
11 May, 2007	Going, going ... gone before the call...	IT WAS a packed house at breakaway auction house Deutscher and Hackett's inaugural sale on Wednesday night..
4 May, 2007	Brack painting breaks record...	A painting by Australian artist John Brack set a new sales record at an auction in Sydney on Monday
30 April, 2007	NGV gets in early to snare view of colonial life ...	IN MESSY break-ups of all kinds — be they affairs of the heart or business — success can be the sweetest revenge.
27 April, 2007	Disputed Anzac artwork sells for $120,000...	A PAINTING of an Anzac icon sold for $120,000, more than double the estimated price, when a large collection of wartime works went under the hammer at Lawson Menzies auction house in Sydney tonight
27 April, 2007	Shape of things not done worth a motza anyway...	THE contemporary artist Christo has built a reputation on wrapping things up. When the American/Bulgarian came to Australia in 1969, he wrapped the Little Bay coastline ..
22 April, 2007	Disputed hero...	A GALLIPOLI watercolour claimed to portray Simpson and his donkey, and tipped to draw bids as high as $50,000 at auction next week, may depict an obscure New Zealand medic
16 April, 2007	Tjapaltjarri expected to set record ...	A $2.4 million dot painting has more than doubled the world record sale price for an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
16 April, 2007	It pays to wait - Nolan's Outlaw sells for $1.45m...	Melbourne socialite Susan Renouf proved it pays to wait when she sold a painting by Sidney Nolan at the weekend for $1.45 million after pulling it out of a Deutscher-Menzie auction five years ago on the eve of the sale. Renouf withdrew the catalogue cover picture of Ned Kelly called Outlaw in a dispute over the reserve.
15 April, 2007	Investors are all art now the stock market's close to the top...	WE'RE getting close to the top in the stock market. There are many ways to prove this but the easiest way is by looking at art
14 April, 2007	Blue blood and scarlet women mix at Bonhams...	BONHAMS & Goodman has switched its attention from its Sydney headquarters to Melbourne, where it's staging a bumper three-day auction next week
12 April, 2007	War art market tipped to boom...	Dealers expect the market in war art to boom ahead of the centenary of the Anzac legend
12 April, 2007	Demands for better protection of Indigenous artists....	A spate of thefts of Aboriginal art from Melbourne galleries is prompting renewed demands for better protection of Indigenous artists and their works
11 April, 2007	Collection under the hammer as gallery shuts....	ONE of the largest collections of indigenous art and artefacts remaining in Aboriginal hands will be split up and sold within weeks after the owners were forced to shut their Sydney gallery and call in auctioneers.
10 April, 2007	Cashed-up buyers have no time for the hammer....	ONE of the largest collections of indigenous art and artefacts remaining in Aboriginal hands will be split up and sold within weeks after the owners were forced to shut their Sydney gallery and call in auctioneers.
5 April, 2007	Sotheby's puts $80,000 pricetag on Kimberley Indigenous artworks....	A local authority in Western Australia's Kimberley is astonished by the value of two Aboriginal paintings it has had in storage for three decades.
20 March, 2007	Free plugs, conflicts and big bucks: autumn art sales begin ....	The autumn art auctions have only just started but already nearly $10 million worth of paintings, prints and drawings have been sold at sales in Sydney this year ...
17 March, 2007	Feeding the art world some Tucker ....	FOR nearly 50 years, it sat among a pile of painter's panels and boards, forgotten and gathering dust. Today, Albert Tucker's 1954 masterwork Flirtation makes its Australian debut
5 March, 2007	Whiteley and Drysdale works to fetch $1m....	Two paintings from iconic Australian artists Brett Whiteley and Russell Drysdale are tipped to sell for more than $1 million each at auction on March 13
2 March, 2007	John Beard wins Archibald Prize ....	Sydney artist John Beard has won the Archibald Prize for 2007, with his portrait of fellow artist Janet Laurence
3 March, 2007	Fresh conflict battle for NGV....	THE National Gallery of Victoria may be embroiled in another potential conflict-of-interest issue just one week after its handling of last year's curatorgate scandal was endorsed by gallery trustees
11 Feb., 2007	Tracker's awards for auction....	A SIGNIFICANT collection of medals and awards given to legendary South Australian Aboriginal tracker Jimmy James is to be sold at auction