‘Deutscher and Hackett’s Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection breaks new ground in this exciting field’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 2 Dec 2020
ART MARKET COMMENTARY
2022 and earlier
Stay tuned ... there will be more to say on market goings-on in 2023 ...
2022 Market Wrap: ‘Deutscher and Hackett claim 2022's slam with an emphatic mic drop’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 14 Dec 2022 Click for PDF
'What’s a name worth? Millions. Deutscher and Hackett’s Australian and International Art sale soars on the back of 7 blue chip lots consigned by 2 VIP collections', Australian Art Sales Digest, 16 Sep 2022 Click for PDF or
'Collector appetite and catalogue mix bring fanfare to Menzies’ calendar-opening 'Important Australian and International Art' sale’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 2 Apr 2022 Click for PDF or Click to read online (with images) (and an accompanying satirical verse)
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‘And the Oscar goes to … Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne 'Important Aboriginal Art' sale offered up plenty of best performances’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 31 Mar 2022 Click for PDF or
‘Sydney’s east coast low deluge no spirit dampener for Cooee Art’s Australian Indigenous Fine Art Auction’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 9 Mar 2022 Click for PDF or
2021 Market Wrap:
‘I am woman, watch me soar, with dollars (finally) too big to ignore’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 10 Dec 2021 Click for PDF
‘A Tale of Two Sessions: Bonhams’ Important Australian Art sale, Sydney, 17 November’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 18 Nov 2021 Click for PDF or
‘Bonhams takes on the C-word with connoisseurship cutting through the Covid pall’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 25 Aug 2021
‘Deutscher and Hackett’s buoyant sale of Important Aboriginal Art brings a shine to the start of the season’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 18 Mar 2021
‘Deutscher and Hackett’s Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection breaks new ground in this exciting field’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 2 Dec 2020
‘Cooee Art MarketPlace’s 5th Indigenous Fine Art Auction Signals ‘Niche Filled’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 4 Dec 2019
Review of Sotheby’s Australia 21 November 2019 sale of Important Australian Art, published 22 Nov 2019 in the Australian Art Sales Digest. (Please contact me for a copy or to discuss).
'The world is finally woke to Aboriginal art: Sotheby’s move its sales from London to the Big Apple amid increasing contemporary art world buzz', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 May 2019
'Menzies Stays the Course with a Strong Finish in Tough Conditions’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 20 Nov 2020
'Panache amid pandemic: Deutscher & Hackett’s Important Australian Aboriginal Art sale sails through with strong support across the board', Australian Art Sales Digest, 20 Mar 2020
‘High Five for a Sale Bursting with Top Five and Record Results: Sotheby’s Inaugural US Aboriginal Art Auction Breaks New Ground with a Blitzing 88% Clearance’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Dec 2019
'Sotheby’s sets new records with aplomb in a sale headed by a rare and important early Dobell and a catalogue full of fresh works', Australian Art Sales Digest, 10 Apr 2019
'Early moderns show their staying power at Bonhams’ Important Australian Art Sale', Australian Art Sales Digest, 15 Nov 2018
'Deutscher & Hackett chalk up another four million dollars in a matter-of-fact/no fanfare sale titled 'Important Australian + International Art', Australian Art Sales Digest, 31 Aug 2018
'Bonhams' Australian Art Auction carried by the distinguished Hobbs Collection and bonhomie', Australian Art Sales Digest, 21 Jun 2018 Click for pdf
and quoted in: Linda Morris, 'Tales of lost masterpieces and hidden gemstones', Sydney Morning Herald, 7 Jul 2018
'What a Difference a Top Lot Makes: Coo-eeArt's Second Marketplace Auction - a More Humble Affair with More Humble Fare', 29 May 2018, Australian Art Sales Digest, 30 May 2018
‘Strike Three! and definitely Not Out: Sotheby's Third London-based Aboriginal Art Sale Sets a New Course', Australian Art Sales Digest, 16 Mar 2018
‘Menzies' Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture Sale Ends the Season Without Fanfare', Australian Art Sales Digest, 4 Dec 2017
‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye's Earth's Creation I Resets the Bar for Indigenous Art at Auction', Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Nov 2017
‘Bonhams’ Australian and Aboriginal Art Auction Carried by Eclectic Fresh Works … and Every Auctioneer’s Dream Sale Highlight, a Sidney Nolan Kelly', Australian Art Sales Digest, 7 Jun 2017
'Mossgreen’s Fine Indigenous Art Sale Fails to Fire from Lack of Focus, Australian Art Sales Digest', 17 May 2017
‘Deutscher & Hackett Adds Two New Artist Records to the Autumn Sales Round in an Otherwise Steady-as-she-goes Event’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 11 May 2017
‘Beyond Sacred, But Not Beyond Reach: The Laverty Collection, Part III', Australian Art Sales Digest, 6 Apr 2017
‘Quality Collections and a Distinction-level Clearance of 86% sees Deutscher and Hackett Claim an Impressive Year-end Tally', Australian Art Sales Digest, 1Dec 2016
‘Bonhams' Double Catalogue End-of-year Sale Brings Cheer to the Art Gallery of NSW and a Handful of Bonbons for Collectors ', Australian Art Sales Digest, 23 Nov 2016
‘No longer a Distant Dream - International Collectors Buy up Big at Sotheby's Second London-based Aboriginal Art Auction', Australian Art Sales Digest, 24 Sep 2016
‘Art and Superannuation’, Steve Dow, Art Collector, Issue 77, Jul–Sep 2016, p. 30
‘Barracking for Bonhams Important Australian and Aboriginal Art Sale’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 9 Jun 2016
‘Cachet Collectors', Andrew Taylor, Luxury, Australian Financial Review Weekend, 3 Mar 2016
‘Deutscher and Hackett hit the boards for their end-of-year Revue’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 3 Dec 2015
‘Bonham’s Vroom Collection marathon sees 90% of starters get over the line’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 8 Sep 2015
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‘Curator-as-point-of-difference pays off for Bonham’s’,
Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Jun 2015
‘Sotheby’s London set to expand Aboriginal art sales after striking success, Australian Art Sales Digest, 11 Jun 2015
‘Red tape driving the Aboriginal art market offshore’, Arts Hub, 21 May 2015
‘Laverty Collection Beyond Sacred – a benchmark sale by Deutscher & Hackett launches the aboriginal art calendar’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 10 Mar 2015
2014 & Older
‘Still a Boys Club, but Women Artists Don’t Need to Join for Cred’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 Nov 2014
'The Roxanas Collection’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 13 May 2014
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'Longing for another You Yangs, Bonhams Secures a Yin and Yang Result, Bonham's Important Australian Art', Australian Art Sales Digest, 13 May 2014
'Deciphering the Code', Indigenous Art Code overview, Art Collector, Issue 66, Oct–Dec 2013, pp. 60-61
'Art Market More Gloom Than Boom', Andrew Taylor, Sun Herald, 8 Sep 2013
'Sotheby’s Mixed-Bag Fine Art Sale a Lucky Dip', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 Aug 2013
‘Destination Darwin', Beatrice Spence, Art Collector, Issue 65, Jul-Sep 2013, p. 183
'Bonham’s Laverty Sale: Farewell without Fanfare and a Haul of New Records', Australian Art Sales Digest, 25 Mar 2013
'What Price Self?', Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture
National Portrait Gallery of Australia, No 44 Summer 2012/2013
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'Aboriginal Art Colours Fade', Andrew Heathcote, Business Review Weekly, 25 Oct 2012, p. 73
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'Menzies’ Fine Art Sale – at Sixes and Sevens, and then finally Eights – $8 Million', Australian Art Sales Digest, 15 Sep 2012
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'Menzies’ Major Fine Art Auction – a Creamy Coating over a Chewy Core', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 Aug 2012
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'Deutscher and Hackett Re-Set the Bar and Join the Top-Ten-Highest-Prices-Ever League', Australian Art Sales Digest, 3 May 2012
'Deutscher and Hackett Bets on Colonial Comfort atop a Contemporary Core', Australian Art Sales Digest, 19 Apr 2012
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'No Surprises and No Superstars at the Menzies Sale and Prayers in Thanks for Savill', Australian Art Sales Digest, 25 Mar 2012
'The Eyes of March - Figurative Works Factor Strongly in Menzies’ Fine Art Sale', Australian Art Sales Digest, 8 Mar 2012
'Bonham’s Saved by a Bolter: Paddy Bedford Sale Streaks Ahead of the Field', Australian Art Sales Digest, 23 Nov 2011
'Bonham's Bets on End of Year Trifecta', Australian Art Sales Digest, 10 Nov 2011
'Sotheby’s Buoyed by Sale of Big Ticket Boyd and Strong Clearances', Australian Art Sales Digest, 22 Aug 2011
'Sotheby’s Hopes to Re-Write Press on the Market with $1M Literati Top Lot', Australian Art Sales Digest, 7 Aug 2011
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'Menzies' Winter Auction Aims to Ward Off Lingering Art Market Blues', Australian Art Sales Digest, 5 Jun 2011
'Menzies’ Sydney Fine Art Sale has First Crack at Setting 2011 Auction Highs', Australian Art Sales Digest, 24 Mar 2011
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'Lawson~Menzies’ Results Suggest Bolstered Confidence from its Base', Australian Art Sales Digest, 23 Feb 2011
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‘The Smith & Hall Liquidation Process – a Cautionary Tale for Self Managed Super Fund Trustees’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Apr 2011
'Lawson~Menzies’ Fine Art Sale First to Test the Waters', Australian Art Sales Digest, 18 Feb 2011
'Sydney Aboriginal Art Specialist Shuts Up Shop', Elizabeth Fortescue, The Art Newspaper, Vol. XX, No. 220, Jan 2011, p. 65
‘Standing Room Only for Hogarth Galleries' Last Hurrah’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 6 December 2010
'Deutscher & Hackett Sale Navigates End of Year Ennui and with New Records Tallies $4.7 Million', Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Nov 2010
'Deutscher & Hackett’s 2010 Finale offers Pedigree with Panache', Australian Art Sales Digest, 7 Nov 2010
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‘Smith & Hall Collapse Sends a Chill through SMSF Sector’,
Australian Art Sales Digest, 13 Oct 2010
‘Market Resilience Promoted in London by Buoyant Results at Christie’s', Australian Art Sales Digest, 27 Sep 2010
'Kaliman and Reid Signal Generational Shift for Secondary Art Dealer Market', Australian Art Sales Digest, 21 Sep 2010
'Drawing from the Roof of the World Goes Through the Ceiling at Davidson Auctions', Australian Art Sales Digest, 12 Sep 2010
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'From Rubbish to Rare Treasure – Christie’s UK Salvages Historical Works via iPhone App for First Australian Art Outing in Two Years', Australian Art Sales Digest, 7 Sep 2010
'Deutscher & Hackett Overcomes Tough Room to Tally $6.21 Million and Secure Second Spot in Year to Date Sales', Australian Art Sales Digest, 1 Sep 2010
‘Vale Hogarth Galleries!’
Australian Art Sales Digest, 26 Aug 2010
'Fred Williams, Footy Players and Femmes Fatales Fill Top Tier at Deutscher & Hackett’s Fine Art Auction', Australian Art Sales Digest, 18 Aug 2010
'Buyers World Over Compete with Bay Bidders for 100% Clearance at Hoffman Estate Sale', Antiques Reporter, 13 Aug 2010
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'Checks and Balances and a Bigger Cheque for the Vendor', Australian Art Sales Digest, 2 Jun 2010
'Museum Quality Work Dominates Top Tier at Deutscher & Hackett’s Important Fine Art Auction', Australian Art Sales Digest, 14 Apr 2010
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'The Estate of the Late Lillian Hoffman: Tribal, Aboriginal art, Artefacts and Antiquities', Australian Art Sales Digest, 11 Jun 2010
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'None of that ‘Crusty Old Stuff’: Contemporary Art Supports a Solid Show at Deutscher & Hackett’s Fine Art Auction', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 Apr 2010
‘Art Aborigène en Paris: Contemporary Art, bien sûr!, mais avec un peu Primitive Appeal’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 5 Oct 2009
‘Wet Paint and Wet Behind the Ears - Parisian Aboriginal Art Auctions Need Refining’
Australian Art Sales Digest, 9 Nov 2009
‘Art in Adelaide – Immigrant Dislocations and Aboriginal Dystopias’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 6 Nov 2009
‘Withdraw the Benjamin Law Busts? A Contrary View’
Australian Art Sales Digest, 24 Aug 2009
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‘PR and Politics: The 26th Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; and 3rd Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin 2009’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 17 Aug 2009
‘Santa Brings Solid Close to End of Year for Menzies Art Brands Sales’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 16 Dec 2009
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‘Summer Snow and Westerly Winds: Menzies Art Brands’ Final Front for the 2009 Season’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 30 Nov 2009
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‘The Hunt is Still Alive and Well for Collectors of British Sporting Pictures’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 3 Nov 2009
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‘Deutscher~Menzies Achieves 86% Clearance Rate and Highest Price for 2009 To Date’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 23 Sep 2009
‘British Sporting Pictures Race Away with Top Results at Davidsons Sale’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 9 Nov 2009
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‘Tom Shuts up Shop and Sells with Tim at Bay East’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 8 Nov 2009
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‘Bay East Re-Branded: the Curious and Collectable Side by Side’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 21 Sep 2009
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‘Hopes Ride High on Top Lot Merry-Go-Round’, Australian Art Sales Digest, 8 Sep 2009
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‘Collector Cachet: What Price Provenance?', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 Aug2009
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Pre-ArtiFacts
Business Review Weekly
John Kavanagh, ‘Outback and Upmarket’, 27 Jul 2006, p. 66
John Kavanagh, ‘Aboriginal Art Draws the Collectors’, 21 Jul 2000
Sydney Moring Herald
Peter Fish, ‘In Search of Lost Tribes’, Money, 21 Jan 2004, p. 9
Denise Cullen, ‘Putting the Art Back in Artefact’, Weekend Money, 1 Apr 2000, p. 126
The Bulletin
‘Carmel Dwyer Hammer and Stipple’, Arts and Entertainment, 8 Jun 1999, pp. 106-108
Sunday Telegraph
‘Arts Beat’, Diana Simmonds, 5 Aug 2001, p. 126
The Australian
Fiona Carruthers ‘Auctioneer on Alert’, 8 May 1998, p. 17