Today’s Art market seems to have more gloom than boom
The Sun-Herald, 8 September 2013, by Andrew Taylor “Blame it on the resale royalties scheme, changes to superannuation, the end of the mining boom or pre-election jitters – but most people believe the Australian art market is in the doldrums. However, auction results for this year suggest the market is healthier than the doomsayers claim. […]
Nude finds the room bare of buyers
The Australian, 28/08/2013, by Michaela Boland “Pre-election jitters got the better of art buyers at Sotheby’s Australia’s Important Australian Art auction …. David Hulme said he thought Sotheby’s had limited its options by offering so few artworks. A larger collection would have attracted more buyers who might then have found themselves interested in others as […]
Indigenous Australian art market suffering substantial decline
Katie Hamann reported this story on Friday, 9 August 2013, 18:46:00 on Radio ABC News, PM. Click to listen to the interview. PETER LLOYD: For the better part of a decade, Indigenous Australian art was at the top of many collectors ‘must have’ list. After hitting a high of $26 million in 2007, turnover has […]
Brush with riches short-lived as prices tumble
Andrew Taylor “…Art consultant David Hulme confirmed the prices fetched at auction by these artists [David Bromley, Robert Dickerson, Pro Hart, David Boyd] had declined sharply. ‘Their prices have dropped by 50 percent over the highs of 2007-08 and just seem to keep dropping,’ he said. Hulme said all four artists were traditionally favoured by […]
Remembering Great Artist
Rod Bennett “James R. Jackson was an impressionist painter inthe vein of Arthur Streeton and E. Phillips Fox … An exhibition of his work has been curated by fine art dealers Brigitte Banziger and David Hulme, of Banziger Hulme Fine Art. …” Read the story in the Manly Daily.
Market Faces Blue Period As Investors Give The Brush-Off
Andrew Taylor “Oliver Rees collects Australian art as an investment and to support the local arts industry. But new superannuation rules will force him to sell part of his collection of 19th century watercolours and paintings by Sidney Nolan and John Coburn ….… The art valuer David Hulme said he had been flooded with enquiries […]
Paper’s brush with greatness
John Morcombe “It’s the paper that won a Manly Daily art competition in 1923 and led to the establishment of the Manly Art Gallery in 1930. … [it] will exhibit paintings by Jackson, many of which have been borrowed from other museums, galleries and private collections. It has been curated by Brigitte Banziger and David […]
Meadmore’s captive work free to join Mexico’s Olympic sculptures
Steve Dow Janus … Australia gave it to Mexico for the 1968 Olympics. … The Sydney-based art adviser David Hulme, of Banziger Hulme, an approved valuer for the Australian government’s cultural gifts program, says he saw the sculpture in 2010 and it was still in good condition. ”There’s been a momentum building for a couple […]
Art Investment a Subject of Debate
It’s on and the gloves are off. Just like two prize fighters squaring up, ‘contemporary art’ will take on ‘the auction room’ in a debate between Manly art market specialist David Hulme and Sydney art consultant Kate Smith. They will be discussing the pros and cons of art purchased at auction and art purchased in […]
And the Russians came
‘….David Hulme was also active on the night, on behalf of clients. Hulme secured among others the auction cover lot, Frederick McCubbins’ 1915 painting The Mountain Cottage, for its low estimate of $ 700,000, for a Sydney client.’ Read the article in: Fin_Review_200912.pdf