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posted 8 December 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 8 December 2022
For the first time in 15 years an Australian auction house has superseded the $50 million mark in its annual sales. Bolstered by the sale of two big corporate collections, auction house Deutscher and Hackett has steamed ahead of its competitors, turning over more than $52 million this year, surpassing the boom-time record set in...
posted 30 November 2022
Riah Pryor, The Art Newspaper, 30 November 2022
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Untitled (Seated female figure with long yellow hair), 1921/22
This striking work was created by the German-born artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, who escaped Nazi Germany only to be interned in camps in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia (via the Huyton internment camp near Liverpool, England), before becoming a grammar...
posted 24 November 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 24 November 2022
With the auction year almost at an end, fresh and noteworthy works keep coming to market. The first five lots in Deutscher and Hackett’s sale in Melbourne next Thursday night are all new to auction, chief among them a classic Howard Arkley painting of a suburban house, as well as works by Jeffrey Smart, Arthur Boyd, Charles...
posted 26 October 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 26 October 2022
Another great Australian corporate art collection has come to an end. The last parcel of superannuation fund Cbus’s collection was dispersed by Deutscher and Hackett last week, in the final of five auctions this year. The collection of 310-artworks featuring headline artists including Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, and Fred...
posted 19 October 2022
Windobi, 19 October 2022
There were no fireworks in September prior to the big fall sales, but it delivered solid results for the mainstays of international auction houses. Sotheby’s tapped actor Robert Pattinson of Twilight famous for its latest Contemporary Curated sale, and three of its selections made the list of top lots of the month. Willem de Kooning’s Untitled abstract work from around...
