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     : Latest Art Auction News [Click on link for full news item]      : 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....      :      : --->
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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.
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George Russell Drysdale, Landscape in the Kimberleys 1958, 76 x 127 cm, sold by Deutscher~Menzies Sydney 18/06/2008, lot no. 29, price $1,020,000

Latest Sale Results..
($50,000+. Click here for all current year results)
Date Auction Title
Total $m
%Sold
01-Jul-08 Important Early & Rare New Zealand Paintings - 19th & 20th Century, International Art Centre, Auckland
NZ$ 1.201
86%
29-Jun-08 Bay East Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Sydney
$ 0.341
50%
19-Jun-08 Contemporary, Modern Australian and Important Aboriginal Art, Lawson~Menzies, Sydney
$ 2.734
89%
18-Jun-08 Australian and International Art, Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney
$ 12.464
87%
14-Jun-08 Australian & International Art, Davidson Auctions, Sydney
$ 0.320
73%


Forthcoming Sales..
(Click here for a full current year auction listing.)
24-Jul-08 Photography, Webb's, Auckland
28-Jul-08 New Zealand & Foreign Art Auction , Watson's Auctioneers, Christchurch
07-Aug-08 Contemporary, Foreign & Collectable Art , International Art Centre, Auckland
25-Aug-08 Important Australian Art , Sotheby's, Melbourne
26-Aug-08 Australian, International & Aboriginal Fine Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne
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