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posted 26 May 2015
Deutscher and Hackett has a record of strong auction results on belhalf of our private, corporate and public institution clients for Australian modernist artists from the 1920s to the 1940s including many record prices. These include Herbert Badham, Lina Bryans, Roy De Maistre, Rah Fizelle, Elioth Gruner, Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Grace Cossington Smith, Peter Purves Smith, Ethel Spowers,...
posted 12 May 2015
Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne premises held a large, active audience on the evening of Wednesday 6th May for the Important Australian + International Fine Art Auction.
posted 28 April 2015
A rare Jeffrey Smart oil painting missing for almost 50 years has been consigned for auction in Melbourne with expectations that it will sell for more than $200,000.
posted 23 April 2015
A rare wartime genre painting set in the louche surrounds of the legendary Hasty Tasty in Sydney’s Kings Cross features in a major art auction in Melbourne early next month. The work, Herbert Badham’s Snack Bar, is a highlight of a sale that also offers a 1960 Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly head and a pristine Conrad Martens colonial landscape, plus a little-known early Jeffrey Smart beach scene, among...
posted 11 March 2015
On what was a glorious late summer Sunday afternoon, the Sydney quay-side museum setting for the Deutscher and Hackett sale of the Laverty Collection’s Beyond Sacred, Australian Aboriginal Art, offered cachet, catering and fresh air. And it attracted collectors and other buyers providing for that ilk in droves, most of whom stayed glued to their spots competing for the 166 lots in a laid-back if...