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The Age |  Luc Wiesman

Syndicated: The Brisbane Times, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald & WA Today

This story was originally published on D'Marge

While lunching with a clever friend, he let me in on a few secrets about buying watches at auction. We're not talking about eBay here, but at the likes of established auction houses.

Smart, Williams

28 August 2014

Australian Financial Review  |  Peter Fish

With a host of new artist records set and a sold ratio of a relatively healthy 75 per cent by volume, Sotheby’s sale of Australian and international art on Tuesday rates as a significant success.

The Australian  |  Michaela Boland

ART buyers proved bullish at Sotheby’s Australia’s winter ­auction in Sydney last night where six artist auction records fell and 75 per cent of 95 offered lots sold for $6.26 million, the best result since May last year.

Australian Arts Sales Digest  |  Terry Ingram

A work considered as Australia's answer to Monet's water lilies struggled at the sale by Sotheby's Australia of Important Australian and International Art in Sydney on August 26.  But a painting of a warehouse and trucking park attracted intense competition and made a hammer price in the region of $¾ million, the highest price lot in the sale.

D'Marge  |  Luc Wiesman

While Friday lunching with a clever friend he let me in on a little secret about buying watches and engagement rings at auction. In this instance we’re not talking about eBay, but at the likes of established auction houses where sellers are not called promisenotfakewatch123.

The Age, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, WA Today   |  James Cockington

Jeffrey Smart was born in Adelaide in 1921 and first exhibited his paintings there in 1941. He was obviously destined for fame. When Smart was born his father, a local property developer, named a street in a new estate in Hawthorn after him.

2GB 873AM  |  Ross Greenwood

Ross Greenwood speaks to the Chairman of Sotheby’s Australia Geoffrey Smith about a major art auction taking place next week. (Audio)

Australian Financial Review  |  Peter Fish

With no less than four major paintings by Jeffrey Smart and three by Fred Williams, Sotheby’s Australia has been wheeling out the big guns for its spring sale later this month.

Australian Financial Review  |  Peter Fish

An old Chinese cupboard and a gaggle of ducks by a noted German artist were the odd couple that took out the equal top scores of $100,000-plus at Sotheby’s Australia’s latest arts and design auction.

Gourmet Traveller

Making a five-star hotel feel like home is the challenge under way at The Langham Sydney - though four months and $30 million is a fine start.

The Australian  |  Michaela Boland

A JEFFREY Smart “mystery paint­ing” has surfaced in Sydney after having been owned by the same family since it was bought from South Yarra Gallery in Melbourne 42 years ago.

Blouin ArtInfo  |  Nicholas Forrest

Sotheby’s Australia has brought together an eclectic range of desirable art and objects for their July 29 Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design auction in Melbourne.

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