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posted 11 October 2014
A worthy fundraising event for the Edmund Capon Fellowship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, was presented as a special auction feature with 'celebrity auctioneer' Edmund Capon providing an entertaining interlude within the evening's proceedings. Works generously donated by the six prominent artists: Bill Henson, Lindy Lee, John Olsen, Alex Seton, Tim Storrier and Guan Wei raised an impressive...
posted 10 October 2014
'Australia led the pack of the top 10 most expensive works of fine art sold at auction in August, according to the artnet Price Database.'
Jeffrey Smart, an Adelaide-born painter who died last year in Italy at age 91, took second and third place of the top 10.
In the final week of summer's official third month, Deutscher and Hackett, with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, sold Smart's Self...
posted 28 September 2014
JEFFREY Smart’s Self-Portrait at Papini’s last night became the second painting by the late painter to sell for more than $1 million at auction.
posted 10 September 2014
Deutscher and Hackett won this battle with a stunning result of $1.26 million IBP for the self-portrait, a new record for a Smart at auction.
posted 28 July 2014
An early and important Margaret Preston, painted in 1929, and two historic Roland Wakelins have joined the line-up for Deutscher and Hackett’s Sydney sale on August 27.
Other highlights will include Brett Whiteley’s Orange Fruit Dove, Fiji from 1969, Lloyd Rees’s Landscape from 1945, and Clifton Pugh’s Feral Cat
