Submitted by aarAdmin on Thu, 08/18/2022 - 00:00
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 setting the tone from the opening lot with high catalogue estimate return of $29,455 when the buyer’s premium was included.
Unsurprisingly, top price went to Fred Williams (1927-1982) Forest Trees (lot 4) which sold for the lower estimate figure of $42,955. It was listed as the highest priced painting in the sale but others were just as popular – such as Michael Shannon’s (1927-1993) Evening in Toorak Road (lot 2) which brought $27,000 on a $15,000-$20,000 estimate.
New Zealand-born Australian painter Roland Wakelin (1887-1971) doubled his high catalogue estimate with a $14,000 hammer return ($17,182 with BP) for Beach at Sandringham (lot 5), the same figure as that paid for abstract artist John Passmore’s (1904-1984) The Seagull (lot 10).
Other artists worth mentioning include William Beckwith McInnes (1889-1939) (Summer Light - lot 18), Jan Scheltema (1861-1941) (Horses and Figure – lot 22) and John Peter Russell (1858-1930) (Pine Tree, Brigham’s Creek, New Zealand – lot 25 and New Zealand Landscape – lot 26), each of which changed hands for an inclusive BP price of $13,500.
Australian watercolourist Jesse Jewhurst Hilder (1881-1916) also featured in the top 10 results with her painting Nocturne which tripled its high catalogue estimate and sold $14,727 including BP.
