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Staff at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions were over the moon with the 131 per cent by value result of their first live auction for 2022 – the Interiors sale on Sunday February 6.
While the top selling lot was a 19th century Anglo-Colonial Padouk centre table (lot 385), that sold for $19,520 (including buyer’s premium) on an $8000-$12,000 catalogue estimate, the two major collections of the late Claude Ullin AM and the Bloomfield/Taylor family also exceeded...
Jeffrey Smart’s (1921-2013) The Footbridge, 1975 (lot 6) – showing his trademark ability to evoke the classical stillness, geometry and light of Italian Renaissance paintings – fetched the top hammer price of $800,000 ($981,818 including buyer’s premium) at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne National Australia Bank art auction on February 22.
The auction totalled $10,555,772 including buyers’ premiums, with 99 per cent sold by volume and 192 per cent by value...
Even Sidney Nolan’s (1917-1992) lesser works triple estimates when auction buyers get the bug. And so it proved at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions Summer Art sale on February 23 when an oil on paper work entitled Greece (lot 55) changed hands for $3904 (including buyer’s premium) against a catalogue estimate of $800-$1200.
Aboriginal artist Freddie Timms (circa 1944-2017) was another popular target and both his Owl Dreaming 1998 (lot 47) and ...
Most of the items in Melbourne-based Leski Auctions stamps, coins and postal history auction on December 9 – its last for 2021 – found a new home when 758 lots were offered for sale.
The top selling lot was complete collection of sovereigns struck at the Perth Mint from 1899 to 1931 (lot 52), which went under the hammer for $24,000.
A flight cover dated 17 February 1934 (lot 389) flown at the time by Australian pioneer aviator Charles Ulm from New Zealand...
It probably came as no surprise that Jeffrey Smart’s (1921-2013) The Arezzo Turn-off II, 1973 (lot 5) scooped the auction pool at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne sale on December 8.
It carried the highest catalogue estimate and reflected his love of Italy – to which he emigrated in 1963 acquiring the rustic farmhouse ‘Posticcia Nuova’ in central Tuscany – and sold for $1,350,000 including buyer’s premium.
The surrounding countryside became the venue...
A John Kendrick Blogg wooden panel depicting a eucalyptus branch (lot 169) brought the top price of a more than double its estimate $135,000 at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions December 7 sale of Gary and Genevieve Morgan’s – of Morgan Gallup Poll fame – extensive Australiana collection.
The Morgans are an important part of Australia’s heritage with Gary’s father Roy, who was educated at Brighton and Melbourne Grammars, establishing the best known market research...
The front cover catalogue picture showed a pair of 2/- stamps imperforated on three sides - that became the top selling lot for $119,800 at Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions four-day sale of stamps, postal history, coins and banknotes, general collectables and sporting memorabilia from December 1-4, which totalled more than $3 million with buyers premiums included.
The stamps were part of the exceptional ‘Artemis’ Collection of Kangaroo & Map Rarities, for which...
Her massive social media following (almost 600,000 Instagram devotees) might have had some bearing on the result – but when contemporary Australian ‘instafamous’ artist Catherine Jenna Hendry’s (CJ Hendry) first work to appear at auction, listed as lot 17 and entitled Red Paint Swatch (Small) and Blue Paint Swatch (Small), went under the hammer on December 1 in Sydney at Menzies Important and International art sale it sold for $63,818.18 (including buyer’s premium),...
Vendors would have been delighted with Melbourne-based Leski Auctions two-day sale on November 27-28 as plenty of the more than 1300 lots on offer went under the hammer for more than their catalogue estimates.
Top price was Althea Mary (Thea) Procotor’s (1879-1966) The Rose, 1927 (lot 1055) – a colourful hand coloured woodcut that, at $33,460 including buyer’s premium, sold for three times its catalogue estimate.
Well-known Melbourne ceramic artist...
Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions final two live auctions for 2021 – the Interiors and Spring Auction Series – on November 20 and 21 were a bonanza for vendors, with a busy and vibrant saleroom after six COVID-19 lockdowns since March last year.
The Interiors auction featured the collections of Melbourne socialite the late Shirley Strauss and interior designer Geoffrey Stewardson.
The former collection sold at 220 per cent of its value, while the latter was 166...
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