Almost $4 million for John Peter Russell’s Impressionist classic pushed Deutscher and Hackett’s sale beyond $15 million.
“Iconic Bracks will bring more now than ever. Nudes from the 1970s onwards are more difficult Bracks to sell. They’re often quite austere, cold, difficult works for collectors to engage with. They can be scrawny, bony, unattractive models. This one I thought was exceptional, even though it’s early 1980s. I’m a little bit surprised it didn’t sell.”, 2003, which sold for $368,182, more than three times its upper estimate of $120,000. Oliver was a Sydney-based sculptor who died in 2006.
Wilson has spent years trying to find paintings that hung in the Archibald Prize. So far, she knows the whereabouts of 1700 out of a possible 6000. The exhibition, Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize, grew out of Wilson’s research. It will arrive at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, on October 20 as the final destination in its three-year tour around Australia.
John Peter Russell’s 1920 gouache, titled Blossom Time, Liguria, carries an authentication on the verso by the artist’s grandson John A. Russell. Estimated at $5000 to $8000, it fetched $7320 at Davidson Auctions’ August 20, 2023 sale in Sydney. In Melbourne on August 16, 2023, an oil painting by this artist broke the record for an “Australian Impressionist” painting, selling for $4 million .
Typically sun-bleached and pastoral, Hilda Rix Nicholas’ oil painting, Children at Mount Annan, Holbrook, is estimated to fetch between $60,000 and $90,000 in Bonhams’ sale, The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection: The Artist’s Eye, in Sydney on August 29, 2023Barrenjoey Lighthouse, 1952, by Adrian Feint is estimated to fetch between $10,000 and $15,000 at Bonhams’ auction, The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection: The Artist’s Eye, in Sydney on August 29, 2023.
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