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Art collectors love Australian artist Ray Crooke (1922-2015), particularly his paintings of Pacific islanders and the entry in Deutscher and Hackett’s timed online Melbourne Modern, Contemporary and Indigenous Art auction on September 5 only confirmed his popularity.
His painting entitled Village Islanders (lot 4) brought the top price when it went under the hammer for $42,000.
Australian art icon Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) is another who rarely goes...
Australian artist Tim Storrier’s sculpture Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage) 2019 (lot 38) scooped the pool at Menzies Sydney timed online auction on August 30, selling well within its catalogue estimate for $147,273 including buyer’s premium.
The sculpture shows Storrier’s enduring fascination with the symbolic power of objects – in this case an easel, hat, briefcase, palette and multiple bulging sacks among many other items on the horse’s back.
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Buyers fell over themselves when an important and rare Chinese early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 A.D.) huanghuali scholar’s table (lot 887) was offered for sale at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions two-day decorative arts and collectables sale on Saturday August 26 and Sunday August 27.
The table was knocked down for $36,000 and is reflective of a period in Chinese history when the northeast Asian Manchus conquered the existing residents and its territory expanded to a point...
Impressionist painter John Peter Russell (1859-1930) is the new high flyer in the Australian art world with an artist auction record of almost $4 million for his painting Souvenir de Belle-Ile, 1897 (Marianna Russell with Goats, Goulphar, Belle-Ile) (lot 23) at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne auction on August 16.
The actual figure of $3,927,273 including buyer’s premium also eclipsed Australian auction records for an impressionist painting in a sale that...
Auction goers did not need much persuasion to snap up many of the items at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions “An Eye for Beauty” private collection sale on July 22 and 23 with an antique 19th/20th century Chinese reticulated segmented porcelain vase housed in its original fitted box (lot 390) bringing the top hammer price of $9500 – more than nine times the catalogue estimate.
An impressive 19th century Indian Kutch silver lidded bowl...
The extensive cricket memorabilia collection of former Australian fast bowling great the late Alan Davidson proved irresistible to collectors during Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions three-day sale from June 28-30 when three of his baggy green Test caps and one belonging to former West Indian cricket captain Sir Frank Worrell (1924-1967) sold within or above their catalogue estimates.
Apart from sporting memorabilia, the auction, with 77 per cent of the 2360 lots...
While modern Australian landscape artist Fred Williams (1927-1982) dominated proceedings on June 28 at Menzies Sydney art auction with three of his works among the sale’s top 10 prices, he also set a new auction record for one of his works on paper when Upwey Landscape No. 1, 1970 (lot 21) sold for $147,272 including buyer’s premium against a pre-sale estimate of $60,000-$80,000.
Williams Kew Billabong, 1976 (lot 26) took top billing with a $1,227,...
Almost 70 per cent of the part of his indigenous art collection that Melbourne-based artist James Smeaton’s entrusted for a timed online auction on June 6 with Deutscher and Hackett sold, with many of the works achieving above catalogue estimate prices.
The top selling painting was Makinti Napanangka’s Untitled, 2003 (lot 5) which was knocked down for $28,000 against an $18,000-$25,000 estimate.
Willy Tjungurrayi’s Untitled (Tingari), 1981 (...
Led by Theodore Penleigh Boyd’s (1880-1923) Manly (lot 1161), which sold for $48,000 (including buyer’s premium), Australian paintings and tribal artefacts dominated the top 10 results at Leski Auctions Australian & Historical sale on May 27 and 28 in Melbourne.
Eighty-six per cent of the 1383 lots on offer sold by volume with the surprise being a Papua New Guinea carved wooden ancestral spiritual figure (lot 1099) collected by Australian ex-pat John Lean...
A bronze and glass dragonfly lamp with the shade from New York’s Tiffany Studios (lot 179) more than doubled its catalogue estimate when knocked down for $32,000 at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions two-day autumn series sale on May 28 and 29.
Last sold in 1994, the lamp was the highest seller at an auction where 66 per cent of the 464 lots on offer changed hands.
A large Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) bronze censer (lot 55) brought more than four times its...
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