Works in the database
70
Works with images
38
Works with multiple sales
4

Past Sales

View of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tales from Tennyson, Queen Guinevere
Untitled (Summer Idyl)

Sales by Medium

Paintings
Sold 48 works for
$143,448
Works on Paper
Sold 6 works for
$11,214
Prints & Graphics
Sold 1 works for
$88

Where to buy or sell art works by Portia Geach

Auction Houses

Bonhams
Sold 4 works for
$66,264
Christies
Sold 8 works for
$22,752
Leonard Joel
Sold 10 works for
$14,499

Born in 1873, Portia Geach studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and at the Royal Academy, London. A portrait and landscape painter, she exhibited with the Victorian Art Society, Art Society of New South Wales and overseas. A well known feminist, a portrait prize for women artists was established in her name after her death in 1959.

Our database records art auction sales of works by Portia Geach from 1973 and in total 70 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 55 (79%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $54,120 for View of Sydney Harbour Bridge sold by Bonhams in August 2023. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Portia Geach are held by the National Gallery of Australia.

Portia Geach is listed in the following standard biographical references:

  • McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 454
  • Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 313
  • Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
  • Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

Artists' Resale Royalty

Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…

Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.

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