Australian Financial Review | Peter Fish
The mood in the art market is reviving after almost a decade of flatlining annual sales. Evidence of increased dealer activity on behalf of private clients is mounting amid improving sentiment and the evidence of several successful sales this year – culminating in last week's Sotheby's Australia sale, where numerous works realised way above expectations.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
The Australian art market continued its stellar run last night when Sotheby’s Australia auctioned 108 artworks for $14.3 million, the company’s best result since the market peaked a year before the global financial crisis hit.
Four artist records were set but the highlight of a night when only a couple of big artworks failed to find favour was the sale of a Eugene von Guerard landscape which had been owned by the same family for more than five generations. Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn Springs sold to a phone bidder for $1.952m, including Sotheby’s 22 per cent buyers’ premium off a $1m reserve.
The Advertiser | Louise Nunn
TWO rare portraits painted by Hans Heysen’s daughter Nora and never seen publicly, are co-incidentally up for auction for the first time.
Being sold by different vendors in Sydney, the paintings were both done inside the same London flat, and give an insight into the artist’s early career.
Interior, painted by the South Australian in 1935 but dated 1938, fetched $120,000 under the hammer at Sotheby’s Australian auction in Sydney last night, with the buyer’s premium taking the sum total to $146,400.
Australia Plus | Andie Noonan
Sebuah lukisan karya seniman lansekap Australia terkenal Eugene von Guerard, yang belum terlihat oleh para pakar seni selama hampir 150 tahun, kini berhasil ditemukan kembali.
The Daily Telegraph | Elzaibeth Fortescue
IT was, says Sotheby’s Australia chairman Geoffrey Smith, “a jaw-dropping moment”. Here it was in his office, a Eugene von Guerard landscape painting whose whereabouts had eluded scholars for almost 150 years. And most unexpectedly of all, the picture had come back to Melbourne, where it was created, from Mexico.
MSN
A painting by renowned Australian landscape artist Eugene von Guérard, which has not been seen by art scholars for almost 150 years, has been rediscovered.
ABC Radio Australia | Andie Noonan
Domain | Mary O'Brien
The world of art can be an intimidating place: cool galleries, confusing artworks, beautifully dressed people in the know.
Buying your first piece is like plunging off a cliff. Luckily, armed with good advice from some experts, you can avoid the pitfalls.
The first basic rule is to only buy original work that you love – after all you’re the one who will live with it.
Australian Financial Review | Peter Fish
A $3 million art collection from a former executive of Mars group and a rare early Russell Drysdale portrait owned by a one-time editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, are among the attractions at Sotheby's Australia's first auction of the year.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
A gold-rush era artwork by the grandfather of Australian landscape painting, Eugene von Guerard, which has been owned by the same family for five generations, is expected to sell for more than $1 million at auction next month at Sotheby’s in Sydney.