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posted 16 December 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 16 December 2021
The recognition of women artists, a return to the traditional and a growing interest in prints and multiples are among the trends of this stop-start and yet ultimately successful year in the art auction trade.
posted 2 December 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 2 December 2021
In December, the art auction circuit traditionally winds down. But these are far from typical times and this December the market is steaming ahead with back-to-back sales in an action-packed week before the year wraps up.
Next Monday, Smith & Singer will privately auction a major Del Kathryn Barton painting three weeks after...
posted 18 November 2021
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 18 November 2021
In the week after COP26 came to an end, it’s bitter-sweet that one of Australia’s major banks has announced that it’s selling its $10 million art collection to support projects that will help communities prepare for natural disasters in the face of climate change.
posted 18 November 2021
In the early 1970s NAB began to acquire Australian artworks that celebrated the diversity and depth of modern Australian artistic vision. Over the decades NAB’s collection has given art appreciators a unique glimpse into some of the very best examples of our country’s contemporary art.
In that time, NAB has accrued more than 2,000 artworks. The majority of the collection is held in Australia and...
posted 8 November 2021
Kerrie O'Brien, The Age, 8 November 2021
After many years out of circulation, masterpieces by revered Impressionists Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts are set to go under the hammer on Wednesday.
Streeton’s The Centre of the Empire (1902) is one of the Victorian-born artist’s first efforts at recreating what he saw in London around the turn of the century.
