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”, […]
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 […]
Dave’s Dupain Faves For The Mossgreen Sale in June 19
I don’t know how long I have raved about Max Dupain (1911 – 1992) … too long perhaps, but to me, Dupain was not just the photographer who created Australia’s most iconic photograph, the “Sunbaker”, but he was also the first true art photographer. Dupain had fine art training and was ever the great experimenter […]
Bonhams Art Auction 6 June 2017
Bonhams offer 68 lots in their 6 June 2017 Sydney auction, mixing the very traditional of Aboriginal artefacts with the Australian modern greats like Roy de Maistre, Charles Blackman and Sidney Nolan and the very contemporary sculpture of Clement Meadmore. You can view all offerings in Sydney at the NCJWA Hall at 111 Queen Street, […]
Dave’s Faves for the Menzies Art Auction May 2017
Where do you find museum quality art? And does it need to be “museum quality”? The simple answer is, it doesn’t. But most art bought through commercial galleries is simply decorative and will never be worth any more than its decorative value, which often equates to perhaps 20% of its retail price. Museum quality art […]
Dave’s Faves for the Deutscher + Hackett Art Auction 10 May 2017
In their autumn auction on 10 May in Sydney, Deutscher + Hackett offer their signature broad mix of 132 artworks – ranging from the rare early Australian colonial (August Earle lot 69), to international greats such as Edvard Munch (lot 114), taking in edgy contemporary works such as lot 23 by Paul McCarthy, and Aboriginal […]
Dave’s Faves for Sotheby’s auction 3 May 2017
Sotheby’s present a terrific offering in two parts in Sydney on 3 May: the David Newby collection of Australian art with 30 lots, and the mixed vendor sale comprising lots 31 to 108. The catalogue essay traces David Newby’s collecting which started in the early 1980s, with important purchases from renowned Paddington art dealer Barry […]