Australian Art Sales Digest | Terry Ingram
The first major painting sold overseas for an Australian vendor in 2016 is a Picasso which - described as an illustration of the artist's ongoing exploration of the female form - made £1.32 million or $A2.7 million.
Condobolin Argus | Melissa Blewitt
A piece of Melbourne Cup history complete with a link to Condobolin is set to go under the hammer later this year.
Thoroughbred News
One hundred and seventeen years after it was awarded, the 1899 Melbourne Cup Trophy will be presented by Sotheby’s Australia for auction on 6 April 2016 in Melbourne.
The Age | Andrew Stephens
When Arthur Streeton visited Lorne with his family in 1921, there was no Great Ocean Road. Visitors went the back way, strenuously, from Winchelsea railway station on a bumpy coach service. If you wanted to visit Lorne – and many knew it as a popular tourist destination – you had to really want to go there.
The Age | Kylie Northover
Australian artist John Kelly loves his home in Cork, Ireland, where he and his family have lived for the past 12 years, but there's one thing he misses: Vietnamese food. We meet at Co Do, (arguably) the best Vietnamese restaurant in Sunshine, where Kelly grew up, and where his parents still live, to talk about Kelly's newest artwork.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
A modest landscape by little-known Heidelberg School-era artist Jane Price stole the show at Sotheby’s Australia’s Important Australian Art auction in Sydney when it sold for five times more than expected.
Financial Review | Jane O'Sullivan
One of Arthur Boyd's most romantic brides is coming out of hiding for Sotheby's Australian art sale in Sydney on November 24. Boyd gave the painting to his brother-in-law, the painter John Perceval, in the late 1950s. It has passed through other private collections since then, but it has never been seen at auction.