Dave’s Faves for Lawson-Menzies on 9 May
The art market is picking up, with auction clearance rates over 70% and more good works achieving stronger prices, as the ABC reported yesterday. Check out David’s comments on the art auction market on TV at ABC The Business. More facettes of this fascinating world are shown in Affairs of the Art – Love, Loss […]
Dave’s Faves for the Deutscher+Hackett Auction
Deutscher + Hackett always present us with beautifully curated fine art auctions. Their next sale on 24 April in Melbourne offers a collection of works from the estate of the Lady Casey, and many others with exceptional provenance. Viewing in person is highly recommended – in Sydney until Sunday 14 April, and in Melbourne from […]
Art Auction Coups for Bonhams
Bonhams have emerged as the Fine Art Auctioneer of 2013. Their much publicised sale of the Laverty Collection of Aboriginal and Australian Contemporary Art was seen by many as a major coup. So much so that Bonhams decided to tour the collection to London and New York before its sale at the Museum of Contemporary […]
The Watercolours of Blamire Young
David and I both love watercolours, and have long admired Blamire Young’s work. Blamire Young (1862-1935) has created some of the most sublime watercolours of the Australian landscape. However, his work is not very widely known today and somewhat forgotten. This is now set to change with the publication of ‘The Watercolours of Blamire Young’ […]
Dave’s Faves for Menzies’ March Auction
David has looked closely at the 133 lots on offer at the upcoming Menzies Fine Art Auction on 21 March. The following have made his ‘Dave’s Faves’ this time: Lot 2 – Ben Quilty, Boy 2008, est. $5,500-7,500. What’s going on inside your head, Mr Quilty? Lot 3 – John Coburn, Chromatic Painting 1971, est. […]
First Dave’s Faves for 2013: Lawson-Menzies
Welcome to the New Year and our first auction preview for 2013 – Lawson-Menzies Quarterly Fine Art Auction on 13 February 2013. David offers specialist impartial advice to a growing number of astute art collectors, acting as an art advisor and confidant. He says: ‘I enjoy saving art collectors from making hideous mistakes in the […]
James R Jackson Show makes great Impression
It was a windy Sunday afternoon at Manly, however, this didn’t deter the large gathering of art lovers attending the curators’ talk at Manly Art Gallery & Museum on ‘Early Impressions – James R. Jackson (1882-1975)’. Art historian and publisher Lou Klepac who opened the exhibition, said: “…[Jackson] was one of the finest landscape painters […]
Summer Exhibition at Manly and Dave’s Faves from Menzies
Today, it’s about two very different ‘Dave’s Faves’: the 6 December auction at Menzies in Sydney and the James R Jackson exhibition that David and I curated for Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The inspiration for Early Impressions – James R. Jackson (1882 – 1975) was the painting that launched the collection of the Manly […]
Dave’s Faves from Deutscher + Hackett and Shapiro’s
November is a very busy art auction month, so David has had to work hard to keep up. This week, he is looking at the offerings from Shapiro’s auction in Sydney on 26 November and from Deutscher + Hackett in Melbourne on 28 November. Here are Dave’s Faves from Deutscher + Hackett: Lot 1 – […]
Dave’s Faves from Sotheby’s and Brigitte’s Best from Bonhams
For this edition of Dave’s Faves, David is looking at the 69 lots from Sotheby’s Australia’s 20th November sale in Melbourne. Brigitte is making her selection from Bonham’s Sydney sale of their 53 offerings on 19th November. First off are Brigitte’s Best from Bonhams: Lot 3 – Donald Friend, The Accident, est. $1,500-2,500. Hope you’re […]