Art market information for Australian and New Zealand forthcoming auctions, past auction results from 1969 to the present, market statistics, news and opinion.

Posters and works on paper continue to hold appeal both for new buyers and those building niche art collections. This auction features 19th lithographic posters - from artists including Jules Cheret, Ernest-Louis Lessieux and Henri-Georges Meunier - as well as original 20th century art exhibition posters, and contemporary works on paper by Australian and international artists.

As the rise in the acquisition of works by women artists increases, International Art Centre’s Contemporary art auction sees the inclusion of a number of significant works by women artists featured in their September sale. One such example is the exquisite seascape by Joanna Margaret Paul, Salt Water Pool at St Clair (Lot 21). With a distinctly post-modern approach, Paul was known for interdisciplinary approach to art making and the composition included in this sale is a superb example.

Fresh off the back of a single-owner sale only two weeks ago, Bonhams Sydney were back in their saleroom on Tuesday night to present a spring accompaniment, a modest offering of 49 lots of Important Australian Art. While the sale totals achieved on the night were a little lacklustre (71% by value and 55% by volume), affordable examples of big-name artists performed well, as did a handful of rare and high-value paintings whose presence underpinned the overall totals for the night. Auctioneer Merryn Schriever conducted the sale with composure and humour, even when the lights went off early - the fault of the timer in their new premises - just as the hammer was falling on lot 6, a little Grace Cossington Smith landscape.

Washington, England: Three distinctive watercolour landscapes by pioneering Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira, once owned by an eccentric Australian media and mining millionaire, have sold at auction in a rural English village.

The paintings, thought to have been personally bought by Sir John Galvin from Namatjira in the 1950s, were sold on Wednesday to a mystery online buyer for a combined £61,000 ($120,000). One of the three works, titled Australian Landscape with Ghost Gum Tree and Mountains, went for £26,000 – well above the pre-sale estimate of £12,000.