March
These ‘bad boy’ art works are not for the faint-hearted
Pieces from Sydney enfants terribles, Brett Whiteley and Adam Cullen, will be auctioned in Melbourne at the end of March.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
November 2023
Like ‘light fittings’: Murdoch family to sell underappreciated art
Three beguiling paintings that for generations hung in obscurity at a Murdoch family grazing property are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
October 2023
Former NAB director’s art collection goes under hammer
Artwork in the estate of a Melbourne business blue-blood who shrugged off a fraud scandal in the 1990s will go under the hammer in Melbourne on October 29.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
September 2023
Menzies’ $3m-$5m Indigenous collection to sell, but not at Menzies
The late, controversial Rod Menzies’ collection will be sold by Cooee Art, while records tumbled for several under-appreciated women artists at Leonard Joel.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
July 2022
‘Intoxicating’ painting sets new auction record
The densely patterned work glistens with gold leaf and looks both strangely modern and deeply steeped in the Italian Renaissance.
- Gabriella Coslovich
June 2022
Whiteley’s record-setter is back, 30 years ahead of schedule
“Chlorine from the pool” has delivered the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in Australia back to market just two years after its sale.
- Gabriella Coslovich
April 2022
Art auctioneer Rod Menzies dies at 76
The former cleaning magnate reshaped the Australian art auction landscape and did so with aggressive business tactics that pushed the boundaries of an unregulated industry and tested the patience of his competitors.
- Gabriella Coslovich
March 2022
Brack, Smart and Quilty to test market strength
Menzies hopes the hot art auction market will deliver up buyers for several big-name works that have failed to sell in recent years.
- Gabriella Coslovich
November 2021
Check your attics: Landscapes join women on art’s hot list
Women artists have broken more auction price records, but after decades on the outer iconic Australian landscapes are feeling the love, too.
- Gabriella Coslovich
June 2021
Ben Quilty’s savage van painting to test market resolve
Contemporary artist du jour Ben Quilty’s menacing, anthropomorphic mini-van and another two high-priced Banksy prints are the ones to watch at Menzies upcoming sale.
- Gabriella Coslovich
March 2021
Blow for Menzies as Turner bows out
Influential Justin Turner has quietly resigned from Menzies Art Brands leaving the company searching for a new Head of Art.
- Gabriella Coslovich
December 2020
A year of hidden gems and high drama in the art saleroom
A pandemic, a punch-up, a chute of new records, and a toppling at the top. It’s been a year like no other for Australia’s art auction industry.
- Gabriella Coslovich
October 2020
Art auction season set for thrilling finale
With vendors reemerging and buyers apparently willing to spend up big, three big end-of-year sales promise to end the saleroom year with a bang.
- Gabriella Coslovich
July 2020
- Exclusive
- Saleroom
Questionable Preston still life pulled from sale
Questions from Saleroom sparked Australia's newest auction house – chaired by Campbell Newman – to pull a Margaret Preston still life that was top lot in its upcoming sale.
- Gabriella Coslovich
February 2020
Smart, Whiteley, Barton headline Menzies sale
After sitting out the spring auction season last year Menzies is kicking off the new decade with auction debuts for works from Jeffrey Smart and Del Kathryn Barton.
- Andrew Burke
June 2019
Arkley interior set to kickstart auction season
A typically bright Howard Arkley painting of a living room is set to test the artist's record price when it kicks of the winter auction season at Menzies.
- Peter Fish
