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posted 23 April 2015
A rare wartime genre painting set in the louche surrounds of the legendary Hasty Tasty in Sydney’s Kings Cross features in a major art auction in Melbourne early next month. The work, Herbert Badham’s Snack Bar, is a highlight of a sale that also offers a 1960 Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly head and a pristine Conrad Martens colonial landscape, plus a little-known early Jeffrey Smart beach scene, among...
posted 11 March 2015
On what was a glorious late summer Sunday afternoon, the Sydney quay-side museum setting for the Deutscher and Hackett sale of the Laverty Collection’s Beyond Sacred, Australian Aboriginal Art, offered cachet, catering and fresh air. And it attracted collectors and other buyers providing for that ilk in droves, most of whom stayed glued to their spots competing for the 166 lots in a laid-back if...
posted 21 February 2015
Crispin Gutteridge says the Lavertys “had the werewithal to visit the communities and were able to acquire the best works” for what he believes is the most well known private collection in the world.
posted 3 February 2015
Deutscher and Hackett are delighted to announce the sale of selected works from one of Australia’s most important and well-known collections of Australian Indigenous art. BEYOND SACRED: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on 8 March, 2015. The sale includes works collected over forty years by Dr Colin and Elizabeth Laverty...
posted 4 December 2014
A large audience gathered at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne premises on the evening of Wednesday 26th for the Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art Auction.
Highlights of the evening included Del Kathryn Barton, Satellite Fade-Out 2, 2011, which reached an auction record for the artist of $204,000 against an estimate of $80,000- 120,000. The artist’s former highest price at auction was $192,...
