Dave’s Faves: Something to Crowe About
Australia’s best known Kiwi Russell Crowe is taking a somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to the sale of his most eclectic collection. It contains 227 personal items, from art, movie props and costumes, sports memorabilia, jewellery, watches, guitars, music memorabilia and more, in an auction titled “The Art of Divorce”. Sotheby’s Australia scored the exclusive prestigious Hollywood […]
Dave’s Faves for Menzies 30 Nov. 2017
Menzies’ auction on 30 November in Sydney offer 186 lots presenting a wonderful variety of artworks at price points that will suit all budgets. You could aspire to major works by Australian masters like Jeffrey Smart or Fred Williams (whose “Waterpond, Cottlesbridge” gets cover lot credentials) or you could go for much more modestly priced […]
Dave’s Faves for Bonhams 19 Nov. 2017
One of Australia’s most prolific 20th century artists, Sidney Nolan remains one of our best known, most revered and loved. Perhaps also one of our greatest exports, living at “The Rodd” in Wales until his passing in 1992. With the passing of his widow, Lady Mary Nolan, in April 2016, another major offering of Nolan’s […]
Dave’s Faves for Sotheby’s Auction November 2017
The end of the year brings a bounty for the astute art collector: the next 4 weeks will be packed with fine art auctions. Bonhams, Deutscher + Hackett, Menzies and Sotheby’s combined alone will offer more than $ 30 million worth of art in this end of year round. To date in 2017, $92 million […]
Dave’s Faves for Deutscher + Hackett September 2017 Auction
No rest for the team at Deutscher + Hackett: just three weeks after the phenomenal Fairfax auction follows their mixed vendor sale. It is a tightly curated auction with 78 lots, starting off with a bang with two rare colonial works on paper. Lot 1 shows the fledgling town of Perth around 1836, while lot […]
Dave’s Faves for the D+H Fairfax auction 30 Aug 2017
Deutscher + Hackett secured the privilege to offer the finest artworks from one Australia’s most distinguished private collections: that of the late James O. Fairfax AC. The 54 lots offered on 30 August in Sydney represent a master class in Australian painting, with outstanding impressionist, modernist and modern classics. It’s worth going to the viewing […]
Dave’s Faves for the Sotheby’s auction August 2017
The 97 lots in Sotheby’s winter auction on 16 August present a beautiful bouquet of some of Australia’s most revered artists. The front and back cover alone are enough to make you swoon: you are greeted by Arthur Boyd’s “Moby Dick Hill” from 1949 (lot 9), and farewelled by Russell Drysdale’s “Boy with a Lizard”, […]
Castlemaine art museum to stay open
writes Mark Kearny in the Bendigo Advertiser on 2 August 2017. An eleventh hour donation from an anonymous white knight has saved the Castlemaine Art Museum from immediate closure, with the $250,000 gift ensuring its doors stay open for at least two more years. About 400 members of the central Victorian gallery met at the […]
Gallery closure labelled a “national tragedy” as art world calls on council to step in
writes Mark Kearny in the Bendigo Advertiser on 27 July 2017. Arts leaders from around Australia have voiced their outrage at the closure of Castlemaine Art Museum, labelling the decision a “national tragedy” and calling on the local council to step in. The board of the 104-year-old institution announced last week a shortfall in funding would […]
Dave’s Faves for Menzies Auction August 2017
Art collectors are driven by passion, not just for the art, but the history of art, the artist and their contemporaries, and endless connections between them. In this regard, public art galleries and private collectors have much in common, and private collectors may go on to donate some or all of their own collection to […]