The Art of Valuing Beautiful Things
By Susan Muldowney | Vol: 38 Issue: 2 | Jul 2015 Published in The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance The sale of Arthur Streeton painting The Windsor Damsel, Fishing earlier this year raised a few eyebrows in the art world. The rarity of Streeton works, the condition […]
Record Price On Rare Window On Week Night At Sotheby’s Auction
Record Price for rare Window on weak night at Sotheby’s art auction By Michaela Boland, The Australian, 26 November 2014 One of the earliest and largest of Grace Cossington Smith’s much-acclaimed late interiors — and possibly the only one still in private hands — ignited a bidding frenzy at Sotheby’s Australia’s Important Australian and International […]
Bottoms up – Menzies First Two Day Sale Gets Bums On Seats
A large number of nude and semi-nude figures dominated the Menzies offering of Australian and international fine art and sculpture in the evening sale of 151 lots, set off by four remarkably similar Whiteley nudes prominently displaying their bottoms to the viewer. Nude offerings also came from Garry Shead, John Brack, Auguste Rodin, Norman Lindsay […]
Long holiday pays off for Deutscher +Hackett
The Deutscher + Hackett sale strategy of letting the Easter and Anzac Holiday fall between viewings in Sydney and Melbourne appears to have paid off handsomely: On Wednesday night, the auction room was packed with dealers, consultants and collectors refreshed and ready to spend in their second major sale of the year. The results confirmed […]
Dorrit Black’s Prices Erupt
A spectacular eruption of her prices was witnessed at Bonhams The Grosvenor School and Avant-garde British Printmaking sale in London on 15th April. Dorrit Black in fact did witness the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1928 and created this linocut print of her experience (lot 107). Bonhams perhaps saved the best until last […]
5AA’s Jeremy Cordeaux interviews David On Buying Art Online
Radio 5AA, Adelaide, 21 April 2014: Jeremy Cordeaux interviews David Hulme on buying art online; in particular on his advice when considering purchasing art from Chartfords. Listen to the full interview here: David_Hulme_5AA
Art Scammers Get Crafty Online, Customers Warned
By Andrew Taylor, The Sun-Herald, 20 April 2014 “Consumers are at risk of being ripped off by a website selling artworks and prints at more than 10 times their market value, a leading art expert has warned. David Hulme said art collectors should avoid making purchases from Chartfords, an online gallery that operates in Britain […]
Oxford Student Wins Fine Art Award
2013 HSC graduate, Luke Henderson, has been awarded the Banziger Hulme Fine Art Award at the Manly Art Gallery’s Express Yourself exhibition. … David Hulme of Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants said he was particularly impressed by the printmaking skills of Luke Henderson and presented Luke with a limited edition signed print. “When I look […]
Closing time for Breuer gallery
By Andrew Taylor, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 2014 Sydney will lose yet another commercial art gallery, with the announcement that the well-regarded Eva Breuer gallery will close in May. … Art consultant David Hulme says the gallery’s closure is not a sign the art market is in trouble. However, like other areas of retail, […]
Art sales paint positive picture
Written by Steve Dow and published in The Age, 17 December 2013 “Art sales at auction in Australia defied dire predictions this year, despite small-time investors backing away from buying low and middle-priced art for their own superannuation funds. Total art sales at auction will reach $104 million this year, up from $95 million in […]