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posted 22 December 2021
Kerrie O'Brien, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 2021
Landscape painter Arthur Streeton ruled Australian art auctions in 2021, commanding the highest price for the year and taking out four of the top 11 sales.
In a list dominated by dead, white, male artists, Streeton attracted a record-breaking $3 million for his work The Grand Canal (1908), which depicts Venice at the turn of the century and...
posted 17 December 2021
James Kirby, The Australian, 17 December 2021
Art investors have just racked up the best year since 2017 after a late rush in the auction rooms meant the sector could hold its own against bumper returns from shares and property.
Joanna Strumpf of Sydney Gallery Sullivan and Strumpf suggests: “It didn’t start very well but as the year went on we realised that closed international borders meant...
posted 16 December 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 16 December 2021
The recognition of women artists, a return to the traditional and a growing interest in prints and multiples are among the trends of this stop-start and yet ultimately successful year in the art auction trade.
posted 2 December 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 2 December 2021
In December, the art auction circuit traditionally winds down. But these are far from typical times and this December the market is steaming ahead with back-to-back sales in an action-packed week before the year wraps up.
Next Monday, Smith & Singer will privately auction a major Del Kathryn Barton painting three weeks after...
posted 18 November 2021
In the early 1970s NAB began to acquire Australian artworks that celebrated the diversity and depth of modern Australian artistic vision. Over the decades NAB’s collection has given art appreciators a unique glimpse into some of the very best examples of our country’s contemporary art.
In that time, NAB has accrued more than 2,000 artworks. The majority of the collection is held in Australia and...
