03 July 2008 | by Katrina Strickland and Terry Ingram
A painting of Uluru by British artist Michael Andrews sold for £937,250 ($1.95 million) at Christie's in London this week.
03 July 2008 | by Terry Ingram
A celebrated Australian opal fetched less than its lowest estimate at a US auction last month, the price tag a far cry from those attached to it in previous decades. Once Australia's most famous opal, the Flame Queen was knocked down to an unnamed American collector for $US120,000 ($124,806)
03 July 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Girl's best friend
26 June 2008 | by AP
A water lily painting by master impressionist Claude Monet has been sold for more than £40 million ($82.6 million) at an auction in London, kicking off a week of modern art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
26 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Deutscher-Menzies' chairman Rod Menzies was extremely keen to sell his 1954 Picasso painting, Sylvette, when it went up for auction at his Kensington, Sydney, headquarters last Wednesday night
26 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
An Arthur Boyd painting was the most admired work on the stand of London's MacConnell Mason Gallery at London's Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair earlier this month
26 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
The former premier likes the environmental bent he sees in emerging artists, writes Katrina Strickland.
26 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
The art world lost a character of whom Charles Dickens would have been proud with the death last Friday of art dealer and publisher John McCullagh.
26 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
All talk, no action Last Friday marked a year since the Senate Standing Committee's report on Indigenous Art came out, but little has been heard of it since.
19 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Sydney has a new gallery and it's rather large, writes Katrina Strickland.
19 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
National laws that make it easier to prosecute for art forgeries will be called for at a day-long forum being held at Melbourne University next Monday.
19 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Turner to Monet a big hit It was panned by some critics, including The Australian Financial Review's Christopher Allen, but that did not stop people travelling to Canberra for the National Gallery of Australia's recent Turner to Monet exhibition.
12 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Jacques-Louis David has given James Fairfax a $7.6 million windfall, writes Terry Ingram.
12 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Australian art dealer Richard Nagy has sold a $US6 million ($6.3 million) self portrait by Francis Bacon to an anonymous European collector at Art Basel.
12 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Art consigned by Sydney property developer Ivan Holland to Mossgreen Auctions raised $1.07 million in Melbourne last week
05 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Two unlikely travel buddies found artistic inspiration in China, writes Katrina Strickland
05 June 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Never let it be said that banks are anything but conservative institutions.
05 June 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Adelaide art dealer Paul Greenaway is opening a gallery in Berlin to showcase Australian and German artists.
29 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
As a dentist, John Chapman of Melbourne extracted a comfortable living working with small pieces of metal
29 May 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Bonhams & Goodman has its eye on New Zealand and Indonesia for potential acquisitions, following its purchase this week of Melbourne's oldest art-auction business, Joel Australia.
29 May 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
The Australian Workers Union director Paul Howes thought he was onto a sure thing when he turned up at Sotheby's on Tuesday night to bid for Jackie Howe's shearing medals
22 May 2008 | by Katrina Strickland.
Tim Olsen has two reasons to be happy this week - Philip Hunter and the federal government's impending resale royalty, writes Katrina Strickland.
22 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
<img src="http://member.afraccess.com/media?id=JPG://98087&filename=20080620123140Carlton-logo.jpg" alt="Carlton logo" align="left">An Australian radiologist recently paid $US177,000 ($184,000) for one of the world's most lethal potential bone breakers.
22 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
A lot of people still have plenty of big walls to fill judging by reaction to the art offloaded in Sydney last weekend by law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
22 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
The Geelong Art Gallery has acquired a magnificent piece of early 19th century neo-classical painting for less than $20,000
22 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
Two decently sized World War II pen and ink drawings by Russell Drysdale were recently discovered in California by Sydney dealer Denis Savill, who sold them on to the Australian War Memorial for $18,000.
22 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
A piece of pottery was the surprise star at last month's sale of Ken Cavill's Australiana collection - surprising because Cavill is best known for his association with Australian silver.
22 May 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
That great art consumer Elton John has been at it again. Gallery Barry Keldoulis
15 May 2008 | by Katrina Strickland
Vasili Kaliman is mystified as to why no private collector has bought Adam Cullen's 2000 painting Comedic Relief in recent years.
15 May 2008 | by Terry Ingram
The National Gallery of Australia has acquired a comprehensive collection of old Australian silver. The Canberra institution has purchased for an unspecified sum the collection of Jack Grace, Australiana buff and former proprietor of Australian Building Adhesives in Sydney's Seven Hills.
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