News Archive — Current Year
By Helen McKenzie on 06-Mar-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
There has been an appropriate amount of hoopla over the auction listing of Sidney Nolan's First-class Marksman (Lot 51) by Menzies Art Brands for their Sydney sale on March 25. The painting, which has an estimate of $3-5million, has a pedigree that speaks royalty in the Australian art realm.
27-Feb-2010
While many traditional art and antique fairs have languished in the past few years, one event sails serenely along, largely defying the recession: The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), held in Maastricht next month – March 12-21 – has been highly successful in maintaining its status and position as the number one classic art fair in the world.
25-Feb-2010
AFTER years in private hands, the painting known as "the missing Nolan" is to go on sale next month when it is likely to establish a record for an Australian painting of up to $5 million.
By our own correspondent on 23-Feb-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
Two unusual paintings by Polish migrant the late Joseph Ostoja-Kotkowski should grab centre of attention at Philips Auctions first sale of the year from noon Sunday at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern.
By Peter Fish on 23-Feb-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
After a five year association with Sydney-based auctioneer Tim Goodman, the venerable Adelaide firm of Theodore Bruce is going it alone. And it is kicking off its first year of independence with a cut to 15 per cent in the buyer’s premium it charges (compared with the 20 per cent common at big city auctions), plus the sale on March 14 of works from the legendary Strehlow collection - including a number of works by Albert Namatjira and other artists from the historic Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, where Carl Strehlow ministered in the 1890s.
By our own correspondent on 18-Feb-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
E. J. Ainger of Melbourne are hoping to repeat the success of their last house sale with the auction of the effects of Jill Holst, and several other estates on Sunday February 28. On September 6, 2009 Ainger's very successfully sold the Estate of Marjorie May Kingston in South Yarra.
17-Feb-2010
The art gallery that planned to sell a number of Ralph Hotere artworks last year is still hoping the sale will go ahead after a dispute between the artist and vendor was settled last week.
By our own correspondent on 11-Feb-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
About 60 people braved the continuous torrential rain to attend the Australiana auction held by Davidson Auctions in its rooms at Annandale on February 6, our Sydney correspondent writes.. The crowd was only a tad under the numbers that the company usually associated with a print sale, Colin Chestnut of Davidson said.
07-Feb-2010
For those looking for the odd, the cranky, the quirky, then the start of this year's auction season is just the thing. Cordy's antique and art sale, in two sessions next Tuesday, has a splendidly eclectic offering including a William Seuffert card table, a 1914-15 All Black's cap, two samples of the Martin brothers' bizarre pottery and a raft of Royal Doulton, much of it rare.
06-Feb-2010
PORN shop owner Con Ange is among 85 people allegedly defrauded in Australia's largest art scam. Mr Ange and his wife Mimi head the list in court documents of those seeking the return of money or paintings from an artworks investment scheme set up by Sydney fine arts dealer Ron Coles
05-Feb-2010
EVEN as she was battling cancer, the art dealer Eva Breuer worked tirelessly in her eponymous Sydney gallery. When she was too sick to be there, she would call constantly on the phone, arranging exhibitions and discussing deals.
03-Feb-2010
A Pablo Picasso portrait fetched 8.1 million pounds ($12.9 million), twice the presale top estimate, at an auction in London last night as telephone bidding from Russian buyers boosted the market for 20th-century European art.
03-Feb-2010
Alberto Giacometti's 1960 sculpture of a spindly man, "Walking Man I," sold for £65 million ($104.3 million) in a Sotheby's auction, shattering the record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market.
31-Jan-2010
Markets around the world are looking to China to buoy their financial prospects. So are art auction houses
28-Jan-2010
Christie’s International said that it is confident of the art market recovering after sales declined 24 percent in 2009, a “demanding year.”
22-Jan-2010
Rod Menzies is offering tips on how to buy art - or, rather, how not to. "Let me put it to you this way," the self-made millionaire says, as he launches into an explanatory anecdote....
20-Jan-2010
In his work as an art dealer over four decades, Robert Webeck was known for his honesty but perhaps will be more remembered for creating extraordinary vehicles to carry his goods.
20-Jan-2010
PETER Blizzard, who played a significant role in the development of contemporary Australian sculpture, has died of cancer at Gandarra Hospice in Ballarat. He was 69.
By Michael Fox on 17-Jan-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
The Resale Royalty for Visual Artists Act 2009, which was passed by the Federal Senate in late November, received Royal Assent on 9 December 2009. Hence, resale royalties will commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation but no later than 9 June 2010, as set out in Section 2 of the Act.
By our own correspondent on 17-Jan-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD)
Melbourne laywer Gary Singer has been commissioned to lead the hunt for a new CEO of the Goodmans/Sotheby's auction operation. But executive chairman Tim Goodman, his trophy Sotheby's secure, is still calling the shots, writes AASD's special correspondent.
12-Jan-2010
A recent decision by the Federal Court has exposed the conduct of one company in the “authentic Aboriginal art” industry that supplies much of the material sold to the tourist and souvenir market in Australia as having engaged in unlawful conduct.