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....