11 Dec
Philips Auctions
Art collectors - this is your lucky auction day
Art collectors can have a field day at Philips Auctions forthcoming Christmas sale that features a collection of limited-edition prints, etchings and lithographs by several of Australia’s best-known artists – assembled by an 89-year-old Melbourne collector keen to pass it on to fellow stalwarts.
The online decorative arts and jewellery auction, finishing from 9.30am Monday December 11 at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, is a great opportunity to acquire a suitable Christmas present for family and friends.
06 Dec
Abacus Auctions
Postal history auction a tribute to Australia's penal origins
An impressive postal history collection up for auction in Melbourne inextricably links the former Australian penal colony of Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Island, home to survivors of the infamous 1789 mutiny on the British ship HMAV Bounty and their descendants.
Under the leadership of acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian, the mutineers had commandeered the ship from Captain William Bligh who, with several of his loyal crew, managed to sail the small boat they were set adrift in to Indonesia. Bligh later became an early Governor of New South Wales.
29 Nov
Menzies Art Brands
ANZ art collection a bonus for Menzies 100th Australian auction
Menzies chairman and head of private sales Cameron Menzies is chuffed to be celebrating the company’s 25 years in the art auction industry and its 100th sale by auctioning 36 paintings belonging to the ANZ Bank collection – given that, as one of the big four Australian banks, it has always been such a staunch presence in its business aspirations.
“These paintings are representative of its Australia-wide and international collection which numbers several hundred works,” he said.
22 Nov
Deutscher and Hackett
Australian commercial art pioneers among strong auction collection
Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) paintings – part of the art collection belonging to early Australian art scene pioneers Joe and Rose Skinner – will be auctioned by Deutscher and Hackett from 7pm Wednesday November 22 in their Sydney premises at 36 Gosbell Street, Paddington.
19 Nov
Fine Arts Auctions
World class Worcester collection goes to auction
Perth-based wealthy analytical chemist Terry Wheeler and wife Tena have amassed a multi-million-dollar Royal Worcester collection unrivalled by any other in the world.
Last November, auctioneer Phil Caldwell sold 90 pieces from their collection in a highly publicised auction that saw a prized George Owen vase made for the 1893 Chicago Exhibition and valued at more than $200,000 among the valued treasures to change hands.
18 Nov
Leski Auctions
Classic historical Australian auction to bring collectors running
History plays an important part in many of Melbourne-based Leski Auctions and the forthcoming two-day Australian & Historical sale from 10am Saturday November 18 followed by the last of Polish Jew Martin Sachs collection on Monday November 20 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale is a classic on two fronts.
One, it contains some of the finest Australian pottery ever to grace the auction scene (lots 1-291) and, secondly, it is a trinbute to the power of the human spirit in overcoming severe adversity.
12 Nov
Christian McCann Auctions
An historical auction salute to master furniture maker Thomas Chippendale
Famous 18th century English furniture maker Thomas Chippendale’s skills will be on show with an attributed nine-drawer mahogany carved floral knee hole desk (lot 107) at Christian McCann Auctions forthcoming Melbourne sale from 12pm Sunday November 12 at 7 Harper Street, Abbotsford – carrying a catalogue estimate of $20,000-$30,000.
Chippendale, who died in 1779 in London, is synonymous with the Anglicized version of Rococo style furniture.
10 Oct
Deutscher and Hackett
Leading Australian artists a collector bonus in timed online auction
Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Albert Tucker, Ray Crooke,Tim Storrier, John Coburn, John Olsen and Garry Shead are among Australia’s leading mainly modern artists whose works feature in Deutscher and Hackett’s timed online Modern, Contemporary, Indigenous and Traditional Melbourne art auction ending from 7pm October 10 at 105 Commercial Road, South Yarra.
The highest catalogue estimate, at $60,000-$80,000, is Shead’s The Presence II, 1992 (lot 19) followed by Storrier’s Cherry Bar and Smoke, 1998 (lot 7) at $28,000-$35,000.
22 Sep
Leski Auctions
Rare Bradman batting glove a Melbourne auction phenomenon
An extremely rare batting glove used by Australian iconic batsman Don Bradman in an actual match (lot 231) is a major highlight of Melbourne-based Leski Auctions forthcoming sporting memorabilia two-day sale from 12pm Friday September 22 and Saturday September 23 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale.
A right-hand glove, according to director Charles Leski it is the only example he has auctioned in 30 years of handling sporting memorabilia items.
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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