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posted 29 November 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 29 November 2023
A missed call was a missed opportunity for a would-be buyer when Deutscher and Hackett staff couldn’t get them on the line in time to bid at the auction house’s final sale of the year in Sydney last week. It’s a danger that stalks remote bidders, whose numbers have increased since the pandemic.
“There was a person who was mad keen...
posted 1 November 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 1 November 2023
Australia’s two biggest art auction houses are shaping up for the painterly equivalent of a heavyweight championship, as buyer enthusiasm for expensive art objects remains apparently undented by this year’s succession of official interest rate hikes.
Major end-of-year auction sales by rivals Smith & Singer and Deutscher and...
posted 23 August 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2023
posted 12 August 2023
Megan Neil, The Australian, 12 August 2023
As a luxury investment, art earns top marks.
In fact, art is now the best-performing “investment of passion” in property consultancy Knight Frank’s ranking of luxury collectable assets, following a 30 per cent rise in global art prices over the past year.
Yet, investment is not what drives most art collectors.
It has more to do with what art consultant...
posted 2 August 2023
Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 2 August 2023
If any painting can set a new auction record for Australian Impressionism, Chris Deutscher believes it’s among the 67 eclectic artworks he will put under the hammer in Melbourne at an aggregated estimate between $10.8 million and $15.3 million.
The undoubted star of Deutscher and Hackett’s August 16, 2023 auction in Melbourne is John...
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