The painting Maroubra Olympic, 1968 (lot 3) by Peter Powditch (1942-2022) was knocked down for $65,000 – more than double its high catalogue estimate – at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne timed online auction of Modern, Contemporary, Indigenous and Traditional art on October 10.
Powditch, who died last year aged 80, was a typical Australian male artist of the second half of the 20th century to whom early success came easily in nude, landscape and...