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A glazed earthenware kookaburra bough dish (lot 23) made by Australian potter Grace Seccombe (1880-1956) sold for as hammer price of $11,000 – 10 times its lower catalogue estimate – at Gibson’s Auctions Australian, Maritime and Natural History sale on August 28 and 29 in Melbourne.
A little more than half (180) of the 314 items offered at the live auction on the first day sold
with a rare 1940s Remued glazed earthenware koala vase (lot 14) bringing $8500 – the...
A piece of nostalgic sporting history went under the hammer at Leski Auctions July 23 sporting memorabilia Melbourne sale when Shane Warne’s batting helmet from his first Ashes tour of England in 1993 (lot 271) was sold for $8500 hammer price.
Warne, who died tragically on March 4 this year from a heart attack aged 52, took 708 Test wickets for Australia during his 15-year career from 1992-2007 as a leg spin bowler.
During the 1993 six-Test Ashes tour, Warne...
Not all art collectors are keen on Aboriginal bark paintings – but those purchased by Australian superannuation giant Cbus as part of its iconic art collection most art enthusiasts would have thought to be an exception.
The bark paintings – all by senior member of the Barabba clan from South-Central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory Wally Mandarrk – comprised Part IV of the paintings that Cbus asked Deutscher and Hackett to sell in four auctions throughout late...
Deutscher and Hackett recorded another pleasing result of $321,300 including buyers premiums (104 per cent by value) for Part III of its Australian superannuation giant Cbus art collection auction on August 16.
All but seven of the 48 paintings on offer sold with well-known Australian painter and ceramic artist John Perceval’s (1923-2000) – the last surviving member of a self-taught group known as the Angry Penguins – painting entitled The Garden of Eden...
Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong’s fourth wife Jiang Qing – a keen photographer – might have been tempted to make an ongoing commercial venture of her Chinese-made Red Flag cameras, produced in the 1970s in Shanghai, if she ever thought that one day they would become expensive collectors items.
Of course, these days they are so rare that Leski Auctions director Charles Leski has only seen one – and that sold for a hammer price and high catalogue estimate of...
Australian post World War II and contemporary artist Robert Clinch (born 1957) knocked over his own auction record at Deutscher and Hackett’s Part II sale of superannuation giant Cbus’s art collection on August 9 in Melbourne.
His painting Twenty Four Variations on a Theme by Pagan (lot 28) was not only the top selling auction work for $147,273 (including buyer’s premium) – eclipsing the price paid for Memory in 2012 at Menzies Sydney art sale.
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A two-week delay caused by staff forced to isolate because they contracted COVID-19 didn’t stop buyers flocking to Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions comprehensive and wide-ranging Stamps & Postal History, Picture Postcards, Medals & Militaria, coins & Banknotes, Cigarette & Trade Cards, Sporting Memorabilia and General Collectables auction from August 3-5.
With more than 2700 items on the table and given the enthusiasm of collectors, it is not surprising...
When quality Australian paintings hit the art auction market it is no surprise that buyers will clamber over each other to get a piece of the action.
And so it proved for Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne sale of the 100 highlights of superannuation giant Cbus collection of Australian art – assembled by art legend the late Dr Joseph Brown between 1992 and 2007.
Ninety-five per cent of the works sold, with six new artist records established along the way.
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In a testimony to the popularity of quality Royal Worcester porcelain, seven of the top 10 items at Gibson’s Auctions July winter auction were part of the late June Harris collection from the famous English manufacturer.
Although the top selling lot (at $26,840 including buyer’s premium – more than four times its catalogue estimate) was an empire revival giltwood sofa and matching club chairs by Italian designer Gianni Versace (lot 299), Royal Worcester from the...
Justin O’Brien’s (1917-1996) Madonna c1959 (lot 26) achieved its predicted artist’s auction record following frenetic bidding at Menzies Australian and International Art sale on June 29 in Melbourne.
The price of $417,272.73 including buyer’s premium (near the top of the catalogue estimate) shows art lovers are willing to pay top dollar for religious paintings if the subject and work are sufficiently striking and to their liking.
This result has...
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