Emily adds Colour to Deutscher+Hackett Sale
What is chosen for a cover lot of an auction catalogue can make for interesting insights. Not necessarily is it the most expensive offering of the night, but perhaps a painting that is beautiful, decorative and able to set off a whole catalogue of works. So, not surprisingly, Brett Whiteley makes it on to the […]
Whiteley’s Armchair Rocks
It has been a long time since the boom year of 2007 when the print media were excited enough to splash an Australian art auction story on the front page and the bull market was waiting with baited breath for the next great and good auction record to be broken. This week, Melbourne’s ‘The Age’ […]
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. 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 plummeted to around $8 million annually. […]
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 in the 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 Hulme, […]
Meadmore’s captive work free to join Mexico’s Olympic sculptures
Writes Steve Dow in the Sydney Morning Herald. 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 […]