Blouin Artinfo | Nicholas Forrest
Sotheby’s Australia has re-launched its Arts and Design sales in Sydney, the first of which will be the auction house’s April 15 Fine Asian, Australian, and European Arts and Design sale. Bringing together a wide range of objects including items of furniture, ceramics, silver, and some wonderful paintings, the sale is an eclectic affair with some notable highlights.
WorldAuction | Pierre Tavlitzki
After Cook's voyages, the activity of the British intensifies between Australia and New Zealand. The first governor of New South Wales, appointed in 1788, includes New Zealand in his territory.
Australian Financial Review | Peter Fish
Sotheby’s Australia has breathed new life into the furniture and decorative arts markets, re-launching the regular Sydney “dec arts” sales it abandoned almost a decade ago in favour of Melbourne. It is pledging to hold up to three such sales a year, probably alternating between the two capitals.
Sydney Morning Herald | James Cockington
The Asian segment represents the greatest area of growth in the world's auction markets. So it came as no surprise to see that Robert Bradlow, Sotheby's London-based specialist in Chinese ceramics and works of art, paid a lightning visit to Sydney and Melbourne in early February in search of consignments.
Australian Art Sales Digest | Terry Ingram
In Australia, a piece of Kiwiana, a silver medal, has been consigned to Sotheby's Australia's auction in Sydney on April 15, and it too may well find its way into a collection across the Tasman. The medal was presented by Governor Philip King of NSW to Te Pahi, a New Zealand Maori chief, in 1806.
Australian Financial Review | Sophie Boyd
The re-emergence of a highly significant and presumed lost colonial artefact is causing excitement among collectors and historians in Australia and New Zealand.
Blouin Artinfo | Nicholas Forrest
Sotheby’s Australia’s April 1 Melbourne Important Jewels auction features a wide range of covetable pieces, ranging from contemporary designer pieces from the likes of David Webb, Cartier, and Tiffany & Co. to items of historical interest.
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Vogue Australia | Julia Frank
Sotheby’s Australia is holding another of its ‘Important Jewels’ auctions in Melbourne next month.
Blouin ArtInfo | Nicholas Forrest
Celebrated Australian artist Russell Drysdale was one of the country’s least prolific artists, producing around 350 oil paintings during a career spanning four decades, which makes the Sotheby’s Australia exhibition of more than 40 of Drysdale’s paintings, which is currently on show at the auction house’s Sydney gallery, quite an extraordinary achievement.
Artshub | Gina Fairley
ABC News
Lynne Clarke, with Sotheby's Geoffrey Smith, came face-to-face with a 1947 portrait of herself as a child.
The Australian | Justin Burke
A COLLECTION of rarely seen works by Russell Drysdale, one of Australia’s most famous but least prolific artists, opens in Sydney today.
ABC News | Nick Grimm
A rare collection from around the world of the work of artist Russell Drysdale is on show in Sydney.
ABC News | Nick Grimm
A major exhibition of the work of renowned Australian artist Russell Drysdale has opened in Sydney, showcasing dozens of paintings rarely shown in public.