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Led by Theodore Penleigh Boyd’s (1880-1923) Manly (lot 1161), which sold for $48,000 (including buyer’s premium), Australian paintings and tribal artefacts dominated the top 10 results at Leski Auctions Australian & Historical sale on May 27 and 28 in Melbourne.
Eighty-six per cent of the 1383 lots on offer sold by volume with the surprise being a Papua New Guinea carved wooden ancestral spiritual figure (lot 1099) collected by Australian ex-pat John Lean...
A bronze and glass dragonfly lamp with the shade from New York’s Tiffany Studios (lot 179) more than doubled its catalogue estimate when knocked down for $32,000 at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions two-day autumn series sale on May 28 and 29.
Last sold in 1994, the lamp was the highest seller at an auction where 66 per cent of the 464 lots on offer changed hands.
A large Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) bronze censer (lot 55) brought more than four times its...
Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne May 23 Modern, Contemporary and Traditional art auction was no doubt pleasing for all vendors involved when all but four of the 30 works on offer sold mainly within or above estimates.
The highest price was obtained for Adam Cullen’s Mongolian Fighting Stallions, 2007 (lot 12) which went under the hammer for $35,000, right at the top of its estimate.
Albert Tucker’s Ibis in Flight (lot 17) streaked past its...
Alison Kelly’s indigenous art collection was popular with auction goers when offered for sale on May 8 in Melbourne by Gibson’s Auctions.
Most of the art works sold within or above their catalogue estimates with iconic artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s (circa 1909-1996) My Country 1994 (lot 30) achieving the highest price of $38,000.
Kelly has had a strong connection with artists, art collectors and non-profit indigenous owned art centres ever since 2000...
Buyers must hang out for the opportunity to buy paintings by Russell Drysdale (1912-1981) – especially ones fresh to the secondary market – and then are willing to pay top dollar for the privilege of owning them.
So it proved on May 3, when Deutscher and Hackett offered Children Dancing, 1950 (lot 12) at its Melbourne auction of Important Australian and International Fine Art.
The painting sold for $2,025,000 including buyer’s premium, the second...
It was no surprise to auction goers that a Demetrie Chiparus (1886-1947) circa 1930 dancing female figure (lot 257) topped the billing at Leski Auctions Melbourne art deco sale on April 30 – going under the hammer for $16,000, above its catalogue estimate.
Romanian-born, Chiparus lived, studied and worked Paris and is famous for his dance figures of the Russian ballet and French theatre.
The collection, which contained some of the most...
Melbourne auction goers were keen to obtain items from Chemist Warehouse billionaire Sam Gance’s Toorak mansion on April 30 and most of the 186 collectables (including 17th and 18th century furniture) on offer were sold within or above catalogue estimates once the Gibson's Auctions sale started.
The highest hammer price was $13,000 for artist Imants Tillers Nature Speaks 2000 (lot 81), while a pair of cast bronze cranes in...
Italian neoclassical painter Fabio Fabbi (1861-1946) – recognised as the last of the Orientalists – scooped the pool with his work entitled Egyptian Street Scene (lot 47) which sold for $80,000 ($30,000 above its high catalogue estimate) at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions Australian & International art sale on April 16.
Born in Bologna and trained at Florence’s Academy of Fine Art, in 1866 Fabbi journeyed to Egypt to join his brother Alberto where he...
Melbourne-based Leski Auctions had no trouble selling the large wine collection of Polish Jew Martin Sachs who survived the horrors of the World War II Holocaust in the German Mauthausen Labour Camp to live to the venerable age of 95.
After the war, Martin, who died in 2020, migrated to Australia where he became a successful builder and developer and was able to indulge in some of the finer things in life such as art and wine collecting, cooking and chess.
In...
While Jeffrey Smart’s (1921-2013) painting Bus by the Tiber 1977-78 (lot 18) was the top selling artwork at Menzies March 29 Melbourne auction – finishing mid catalogue estimate range at $638,182 including buyer’s premium – it was another of his works that sent the sale into overdrive.
Renowned for paintings that reflect on changing social and environmental conditions, the artist’s Study for the Petrol Station 1975 (lot 15) saw three telephone...
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