Works in the database
120
Works with images
109
Works with multiple sales
13

Past Sales

Green Line, 1999
Blocking Out, 2014
Yolk, 2004

Sales by Medium

Paintings
Sold 70 works for
$1,139,837
Works on Paper
Sold 5 works for
$16,067
Objects
Sold 1 works for
$6,655

Where to buy or sell art works by Ildiko Kovacs

Auction Houses

Shapiro Auctioneers
Sold 17 works for
$312,445
Bonhams
Sold 9 works for
$260,445
Menzies
Sold 9 works for
$165,436

Born in Sydney in 1962 Ildiko Kovacs studied at St George College, Sydney in 1978 and the National Art School in 1979 and 1980. An abstract painter she held her first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1988 and since then has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Melbourne, Sydney Adelaide and Darwin. In 2015 she won the $80,000 Bulgari Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Our database records art auction sales of works by Ildiko Kovacs from 1995 and in total 120 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 77 (64%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $87,840 for Boot sold by Bonhams in March 2013. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Ildiko Kovacs are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Gallery of NSW.

Ildiko Kovacs 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 585
  • 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.

The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 610,000 works by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and an additional 36,000 foreign and other artists, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present day.

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