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Four-day auctions invariably cover a lot of territory and Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions August 27-30 sale was no exception – with more than 3000 items featuring stamps, postal history and picture postcards, militaria, coins and banknotes, jewellery and watches, sporting memorabilia and other collectables included in the lots on offer.
With a total hammer price of $1,836,923 reached, 2625 of the 3324 lots (79 per cent) sold.
Bert Wajer’s One Penny stamp...
Two arts auctions on the same evening in Melbourne brought collectors out in droves.
Plenty turned up to the Menzies Prints & Multiples sale on August 28 and the auction house couldn’t have been happier with the result when more than 75 per cent of the 81 works sold at 111.7 per cent of their value.
Two photographs featured prominently – one an auction record for the artist.
This was Greg Weight’s picture (lot 65) of a languidly smoking Brett...
Melbourne-based Leski Auctions August 11 Eye for Beauty sale certainly lived up to its name when a gorgeous 19th/20th century Russian silver photo album with a hand painted front panel (lot 39) was knocked down for $16,000 – 16 times its upper catalogue estimate.
This was part II of a single owner private collection of decorative arts that featured a comprehensive range of items including silver, Chinese and Asian art, jewellery and watches,...
Except for iconic indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c1910-1996) art sales went more or less according to plan at Menzies important Australian and international art auction in Melbourne on June 26.
Her Wild Orange 1991 synthetic polymer paint on canvas effort (lot 28) pleasingly surpassed many expectations with its $245,455 (Including buyer’s premium) return on a $60,000-$80,000 catalogue estimate.
Like Rover Thomas, Kngwarreye is a mainstay of...
Two inescapable conclusions are apparent from the results of Melbourne-based Leski Auctions latest two-day decorative arts and collectables sale on June 22 and 23.
One – the personal collections of well-known collectors are popular with buyers, with almost all items selling within or above catalogue estimate range.
Two – it can be difficult at times to set realistic estimates for items imported from other countries.
It is of little surprise that the...
Six small items formerly owned by Australian fast bowling great the late Alan Davidson (1929-2021) and found in an old coat pocket have realised a massive $70,000 at Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions sporting memorabilia, stamps, coins and banknotes and postal history May sale.
The items, which included a Sydney Cricket Ground life members badge and Melbourne Cricket Club honorary members badge with a pair of silver cuff links commemorating the 40th...
An Arthur Streeton painting of General Sir John Monash’s 1918 French headquarters at La Cateau (lot 720) sold for $42,000 at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions Australian & Historical sale on May 25 and 26.
Streeton completed the painting after he visited the headquarters and then gifted it to Monash as a token of gratitude.
The painting brought the second highest price of the Monash collection (comprising lots 703-776) that was a major highlight in an auction...
Items owned by prominent Australian sporting figures Nathan Buckley and Maureen Caird scooped the pool at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions May 1 Sporting Memorabilia sale when almost 600 lots went under the hammer.
Caird’s 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medal for winning the 80-metres hurdle event (lot 584) was a bonanza $36,000 on a $20,000-$25,000 catalogue estimate – showing yet again how much Olympic memorabilia is prized among collectors.
Several other items...
Comparatively high Interest rates and increases in the cost of living might be impacting Australian home buyers at the moment, but the secondary art market is still booming – if Deutscher and Hackett’s latest sale results are any guide.
The auction house’s Melbourne-based April Australian and International Fine Arts auction saw the offered 55 paintings scream past their collective high $14,872,000 catalogue estimate to realise $16,689,682 including buyers’ premiums....
Charles Blackman’s (1928-2018) Day Dream 1958 (lot 33) brought the highest price of $270,000 (including buyer’s premium) at Menzies Melbourne auction on March 27 in a sale that just tipped over the $4.025 million mark (bp included) when 82 per cent of the works on offer changed hands.
The painting is a key element of the artist’s Faces and Flowers series, completed when Blackman was at the peak of his early recognition.
Buyer enthusiasm for such a rare...
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