23 December, 2008
AFTER a bumper 2007, the Australian art auction market is down nearly 35 per cent this year, with $114.5 million of art works going under the hammer...
19 December, 2008
A CODE of conduct drafted to stamp out unethical practices in the indigenous art industry is open for public comment...
10 December, 2008
ARTHUR Boyd's landscape painting Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria, has gone under the hammer for $800,000...
20 November, 2008
TWO prominent Australian artists have taken legal action against two Melbourne art dealers to stop them selling allegedly fake works...
13 November, 2008
THE owners of a 1983 painting by Rover Thomas are suing auction house Lawson-Menzies for not revealing details about previous ownership in its June catalogue, which caused the work to be withdrawn from sale...
4 November, 2008
This year, not one but two paintings by famous Australians have been discovered by Texan housewives in their local stores...
23 October, 2008
James Gleeson, Australia's quintessential surrealist artist, died in Sydney at the age of 92. ..
24 October, 2008
THE estates of Brett Whiteley, John Brack and Fred Williams will be the biggest beneficiaries of a resale royalty scheme..
21 October, 2008
ART adviser Michael Reid calls them the "alpha male business people who need to own more than they want to own"..
16 September, 2008
Tough legislation will guarantee artists a fair dividend when their work is resold, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.
6 September, 2008
AUSTRALIA'S leading art auctioneer, Rod Menzies, is being investigated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission following a complaint by his rivals.
30 August, 2008
THERE are too many auction houses to survive an art market crash, key industry players predict as they reflect on this week's poor auction results...
30 August, 2008
ECCENTRIC 20th-century pop artist Andy Warhol thought a lot about image....
27 August, 2008
ART market jitters continued last night with more than half of the works on auction at Bonhams and Goodman in Prahran failing to sell...
25 August, 2008
The 1963 portrait titled Rocky McCormack features a farmer from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales...
8 August, 2008
...the Federal Government has come good on a promise to share the spoils with artists and their families....
7 August, 2008
The auction season resumes later this month with top-quality catalogues...
1 August, 2008
Recent revelations about questionable practices in the art auction market...
31 July, 2008
FOR more than 100 years, it was displayed quietly in a family home.
30 July, 2008
... says a New York art critic, Ben Genocchio....
30 July, 2008
LAWYERS acting on behalf of auctioneer Tim Goodman and other key art identities ...
29 July, 2008
The artist signs his name as Duk Duk - "agile wallaby"....
29 July, 2008
OVER the past 10 years, Melbourne businessman Rod Menzies has worked assiduously ....
19 July, 2008
ON May 29, 1945, a 28-year-old artist called Robin Murray created four paintings of Melbourne's St Kilda beach.
19 July, 2008
The rest of the world is being denied Aboriginal art by outmoded government laws, writes Benjamin Genocchio.
3 July, 2008
Experts say a stolen painting by renowned Australian landscape artist, Tom Roberts, will be difficult to sell ...
20 June, 2008
AUCTION house Lawson-Menzies yesterday withdrew from sale a painting..
19 June, 2008
A 1954 work by Pablo Picasso became the most expensive painting sold in Australia ..
18 June, 2008
A COUPLE jailed for Aboriginal art fraud have begun a desperate bid to keep their Toorak apartment..
16 June, 2008
A dozen paintings by one of Australia's most recognised landscape artists have gone under the hammer..
15 June, 2008
A PICASSO up for sale this week could set the record..
15 June, 2008
CHRISTIE'S decision to pull out of the local auction game..
29 May, 2008
DOOMSAYERS have been quick to declare the art market is about to go into reverse ..
28 May, 2008
THE largest auction of art works by Sir Hans Heysen to be held in Australia in more than a decade will be in Adelaide next month...
10 May, 2008
And we all thought Sidney Nolan's haunting images of the bushranger ..
10 May, 2008
ROD Menzies, the owner of art auction houses Deutscher-Menzies and Lawson-Menzies, makes no secret of his ambition to be the market leader ..
30 April, 2008
THE National Gallery of Australia added another Frederick McCubbin painting ..
25 April, 2008
It was a big week for the art auction market ..
24 April, 2008
AUSTRALIAN sculpture's increasing popularity was further confirmed last night when a bronze work by Brett Whiteley's best friend, artist Joel Elenberg, sold at auction for $384,000...
23 April, 2008
A NEW auction record for the post-Impressionist Ethel Carrick Fox was set last night...
19 April, 2008
LEADING art auction houses say that changes to Victorian heritage laws affecting the sale of indigenous art ...
17 April, 2008
FOR a few minutes last night it was Cate Blanchett's art collection and not her performance that caught the crowd's attention ...
17 April, 2008
One of Australia's biggest art collections went to auction yesterday. Pro Hart's $10 million collection was sold ...
5 April, 2008
Seemingly oblivious to the recent sharemarket mayhem and the fallout from crashing stockbrokers and their hapless clients, Sotheby's has managed to line up a catalogue studded with interesting and mostly fresh pictures for its Sydney sale on April 22
28 March, 2008
ARMS reaching out, body stretched, she looks almost as though she's about to take a dive.
26 March, 2008
After a record 2007, art auctions are off to a sluggish start, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.
20 March, 2008
An oil painting considered to be one of the finest by renowned artist Charles Goldie brought a record auction price at a sale in Auckland....
19 March, 2008
A set of paintings bought by the late Launceston art collector Diana Cameron has sold for more than three times the expected price....
19 March, 2008
IT IS every art auctioneer's worst nightmare - the loss of a precious painting consigned for sale by a private collector....
18 March, 2008
An oil on canvas by Australian artist Russell Drysdale has sold for a record $1.68 million at auction in Sydney....
15 March, 2008
WITH the big art auctioneers yet to launch their sales in an art market that is unlikely to completely shrug off the effects of a near-25 per cent plunge in the sharemarket ....
14 March, 2008
WHEN Albert Namatjira died in 1959, his descendants missed out on a share of the celebrated artist's estate....
8 March, 2008
Last month Albert Tucker topped the million-dollar mark for the first time at Bonhams & Goodman....
26 January, 2008
The final figures are in, and they show the Australian art auction market turned over $175.6 million last year, up 68 per cent compared with the $104.9 million for 2006....
24 January, 2008
SOTHEBY'S Australia will be headed by a woman for the first time in its 40-year history....
04 January, 2008
ART auctioneer Menzies Art Brands is parting company with its Aboriginal art specialist, Adrian Newstead....