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A $300 Banksy Artwork Bought at the MCA Store in 2003 has Emerged as the Art Bargain of a Lifetime.

4 May 2021

The Daily Telegraph  |  Elizabeth Fortescue

A Banksy screen print picked up at the MCA Store at Circular Quay for less than $300 in 2003 is estimated to fetch its lucky owner between $100,000 and $150,000 at auction this month, eclipsing Banksy’s Australian auction record.

Banksy’s Love Is In The Air is number 450 of an edition of 500 printed in 2003, according to Smith and Singer auctioneers’ chairman Geoffrey Smith.

Banksy Artwork Bought for $300 at MCA Expected to Sell for $150k

4 May 2021

Herald Sun  |  Elizabeth Fortescue

A $300 Banksy artwork bought at the MCA Store in 2003 has emerged as the art bargain of a lifetime.  A Banksy screen print picked up at the MCA Store at Circular Quay for less than $300 in 2003 is estimated to fetch its lucky owner between $100,000 and $150,000 at auction this month, eclipsing Banksy’s Australian auction record.

Banksy’s Love Is In The Air is number 450 of an edition of 500 printed in 2003, according to Smith and Singer auctioneers’ chairman Geoffrey Smith.

Banksy’s Iconic 'Love Is In The Air' (2003) to be Offered in Inaugural Stand-Alone Online Auction

4 May 2021

AUEX025_Ross_Exhibition_Release.pdf Bidding is now open on the inaugural, stand-alone SMITH & SINGER ONLINE auction, offering a signed and inscribed screenprint of Banksy’s iconic, Love Is In The Air (2003).  The auction will be open to bidding for 10 days, concluding at 10 pm on Thursday 13 May.  Offered over 17 years since the original image was created, Love Is In The Air is now imbued with the struggles and protests of our society since that time – from Black Lives Matter to Women’s Justice, Environmental and Climate Crisis to Brexit – and will continue to be one of the artist’s most enduring images.  Acquired in 2003 from the MCA Store at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney for less than $300, the work is set to eclipse the Australian auction record for Banksy. (441 KB)

Records Fall as Millions Spent on Paintings, Diamond

21 April 2021

Financial Review  |  Gabriella Coslovich

Three million-dollar paintings, six new auction records, and Australia’s first million-dollar diamond were all realised in Sydney on Tuesday night, emphasising the ongoing strength of the secondary art market. Deprived of their international getaways, Australia’s richest, many of whose fortunes have grown during the pandemic, are splashing out at home, and the auction industry is a clear beneficiary. The money needs to go somewhere, and why not on art and luxury goods – tangible art and luxury goods no less.

Smith & Singer Opens 2021 Auction Season With $11,965,909 Sale

21 April 2021

AU0848_JEWELS_Auction_Results.pdf Last night, at Smith & Singer’s first Important Australian & International Art auction of the year, bidders from across Australia and the around the world competed for the works of art on offer.  Two prices in excess of $1 million were achieved, with six works setting new auction records.  Bidding from clients in the saleroom, on telephones, and online resulted in a sold rate of 93.44% by volume and 144.22% by value, with a total of $11,965,909 including BP.  Outstanding results were achieved for traditional, modern, and contemporary Australian artists including George Baldessin, Arthur Boyd, Bessie Davidson, Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Klippel, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, Jeffrey Smart, Constance Stokes, Arthur Streeton, Albert Tucker, and Fred Williams, amongst others. (659.6 KB)

Old Guard Leads as Art Market gets set for $16m Week

15 April 2021

Financial Review  |  Gabriella Coslovich

Collectors will be spoilt for choice next week as more than $16 million in art goes under the hammer at Deutscher and Hackett, Smith & Singer, and Bonhams. No fewer than four million-dollar-plus paintings by blue-chip artists will be offered – three of them by Smith & Singer.

Post-war Antique Furniture Growing in Value

13 March 2021

The Sydney Morning Herald  |  Stephen Crafti

Furniture from the post-war period saw a number of great proponents, with many European designers making their mark in Australia.

One of the most acclaimed is cabinet-maker and artist Schulim Krimper, described as the “Gio Ponti” – an Italian designer of great note – of Australia by Geoffrey Smith, chair of Smith and Singer (formerly Sotheby’s Australia).

What the Girl Saw: a McCubbin That Sat Beside a Masterpiece

5 March 2021

The Sydney Morning Herald  |  Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

More than 100 years ago, upstairs in the Athenaeum on Collins St, a painting of a girl in the outback sat next to a masterpiece.

What the Little Girl Saw in the Bush - its subject standing by a fencepost, spying on two fairies frolicking in the lush Australian landscape - was exhibited at Frederick McCubbin’s first solo exhibition directly beside The Pioneer, the artist’s monumental work soon to be snatched up by the NGV and become one of the country’s most recognised, admired and loved images.

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