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The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of past auction results of over 345,000 works by more than 12,100 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 1,860 auction sales from over 52 auction houses, and extends back to the early 1970s.

News and Opinion

Bidding Is Thin at Christie’s in London
30-Jun-2009
LONDON — The summer season of evening contemporary art auctions ended here at Christie’s on Tuesday night when collectors went bargain hunting, feeling comfortable dropping $2 million, but thinking hard when the numbers started rising.
Crucial US link overlooked in Queensland's US blockbuster
By Terry Ingram on 28-Jun-2009

Whatever happened to the artist who most closely linked America and Australia in the age of Impressionism? And why isn't he represented in the Queensland Art Gallery's current blockbuster, asks Terry Ingram. The exhibition evokes one of the great Australian saleroom mysteries of all time but provides no answers.

The art market: Slow Tuesday, fast Wednesday and the danger of a double dip
27-Jun-2009
It was a tale of contrasting sales this week in London, as Christie’s and Sotheby’s rolled out their summer impressionist and modern auctions.
Hats off to the Galloping Major
By Terry Ingram on 20-Jun-2009

Auctioneering lost one of the last great characters of a racier, more colourful age with the death of Major William (Bill) Spowers after a fall at his Arboretum in rural England on June 12, writes Terry Ingram

Made in Indonesia, sold as Aboriginal
19-Jun-2009
THE Aboriginal artist Ubanoo Brown depicts Australian fauna in a lively, colourful style. There's one problem: he doesn't exist.
Lloyd Rees, A Song to Creation - Land 1969, 96.5 x 127.5 cm, sold by Deutscher~MenziesSydney 25/03/2009, lot no. 42, price $504,000 a new record price for the artist.