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Bought for $100, this Banksy could sell for $650,000
posted 20 April 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 20 April 2023

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Women dominate in best Indigenous art sale in a decade
posted 29 March 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 29 March 2023 Glamour artworks by women dominated Deutscher and Hackett’s Important Australian Indigenous Art auction in Melbourne last week, propelling the overall result to a decade-high total of $3.262 million. Women artists scored four of the evening’s top five prices, and set most of the new artist auction price records. Interest in their...

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Can Gabori’s giant contemporary Indigenous work set a record?
posted 1 March 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 1 March 2023 Is a large and luscious canvas about to set a new auction record for the acclaimed Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori? Crispin Gutteridge, head of Aboriginal art at auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett, thinks so. The fame of the late Sally Gabori reached its apogee last year with a grandly-mounted solo exhibition of her work at the...

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Art’s river of time turns in favour of Fullwood
posted 22 February 2023

Elizabeth Fortescue, Australian Financial Review, 22 February 2023 Deutscher and Hackett’s Modern and Contemporary sale in Melbourne on Wednesday February 15 scored a great result for John Olsen’s humorous watercolour Mice and Trap which sold for $30,000 ($36,818 including premium), double its high estimate of $15,000. The same work was sold for $7475 (including premium) in 1998, but went unsold...

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Deutscher and Hackett claim 2022’s slam with an emphatic mic drop
posted 13 December 2022

Jane Raffen, AASD, 13 December 2022 After 2021’s roller derby-like pandemic-induced scramble, 2022 settled into unfamiliar territory: a boom-time pattern. Launching early and finishing late, Deutscher and Hackett devoured more than $52 million dollars of fine art, delivering a coup de grâce to their competitors' ambitions with equanimity, along with a solid haul of new and significant records,...

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