19 Sep

Abacus Auctions
Legendary Australian broadcaster's sporting memorabilia collection up for auction
The name Gary Fenton (1946-2023) will live on in Australian broadcasting history as the driving force behind the worldwide coverage of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Head of sport in turn at Channels 7 and 9, his influence at both television stations was profound.
His efforts in securing Channel 9 the Australian rights to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and wresting coverage of the 2012 London summer games from the incumbent Channel 7 via an audacious joint bid with Foxtel are still talked about today.
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17 Sep

Fine Arts Auctions
Mackley family collection an auction marvel
Through their eclectic personalities, Evan Mackley (1940-2019) and his son Simon made significant impacts as artists, restauranteurs, collectors of antiques and overall entrepreneurs.
From High Street, Armadale to Ringwood in Melbourne and throughout country Victoria, they were well-known and appreciated for their passion in these pursuits – with Evan’s wife Barbara a driving managerial force and connection.
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05 Sep

Deutscher and Hackett
Australian art auction for smart collectors and first time buyers
Smart collectors and first-time buyers would be well advised to closely consider Deutscher and Hackett’s timed online Melbourne Modern, Contemporary and Indigenous art auction which will end from 7pm Tuesday September 5.
Among the 45 works on offer are several by top Australian artists along with affordable paintings ideal for collection starters.
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30 Aug

Menzies Art Brands
Picasso among the pottery and prints at Menzies timed oline auction
Ten Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) pottery pieces and prints by some of Australia’s best-known artists are part of Menzies timed online Prints & Multiples Sydney auction ending from 6.30pm Wednesday August 30 at 12 Todman Avenue, Kensington.
While there are several high-priced items among the 110 lots, many are estimated for only a few thousand dollars and will no doubt appeal to first time auction goers looking to buy a work by a well-known artist.
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26 Aug

Leski Auctions
Melbourne auction a desirable eclectic mix
When hundreds of vendors consign items for auction, the result is an eclectic range that has to be seen to be believed.
Melbourne-based Leski Auctions forthcoming two-day decorative arts and collectables sale – from 10am Saturday August 26 and Sunday August 27 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale – is just such an event, with a comprehensive selection bound to suit both collectors and first-time auction goers.
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16 Aug

Deutscher and Hackett
Australian art world collecting giants auction paintings
Art works belonging to two giants of Australia’s art world – including Brett Whiteley’s (1939-1992) South Coast After the Rain, 1984 (lot 1) and Sidney Nolan’s (1917-1992) Early Morning Township, 1955 (lot 9) – will be among the massive highlights of Deutscher and Hackett’s forthcoming Melbourne auction from 7pm Wednesday August 16 at 105 Commercial Road, South Yarra.
The former painting, carrying a $1.5 million to $2 million catalogue estimate, belongs to advertising guru Peter Clemenger and his wife Joan, who died early last year.
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22 Jul

Leski Auctions
This Australian auction is a rare beauty
Aptly named “An Eye for Beauty”, this private collection – featuring a rare 19th century German pate-sur-pate phanolith neoclassical charger of The Argo by Jean Baptist Stahl (lot 507) on the catalogue front cover – is the forthcoming two-day offering from Melbourne-based Leski Auctions from 12pm Saturday July 22 and Sunday July 23 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.
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28 Jun

Menzies Art Brands
Old rubbish dump inspires iconic Australian auction painting
Leading Australian landscape artist Fred Williams (1927-1982) was fascinated with a “billabong” in the Melbourne suburb of Kew and during the mid-1970s used it as the basis for his Kew Billabong series – numbering more than 30 paintings.
Describing it as “splendid” but noting that the place was in fact “just a rubbish dump of all things”, he admitted to using a rubber tyre in his painting as a motif (first ever) and found it a great place to work.
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28 Jun

Abacus Auctions
Rare chance to buy famous Australian photographer's large prints at auction
One of Australia’s most famous photographers and an internationally respected master of his craft, Wolfgang Georg Sievers (1913-2007) compositions were often magic personified and changed the face of industrial and architectural photography in this country forever.
So important is he to Australia’s photographic history that 65,000 of his images reside in the National Library of Australia in the national capital, Canberra – the largest single collection on record.
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28 Jun

Abacus Auctions
Australian fast bowling great's collection a piece of auction cricketing history
After he retired, legendary left-arm Australian fast bowler Alan Davidson (1929-2021) used to amuse guests at Sydney Cricket Ground official lunches by using round bread rolls to demonstrate how to hold a cricket ball to bowl an inswinger.
In fact, it became such an obsession that staff started substituting the elongated variety to counteract him.
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