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posted 30 November 2014

Deutscher and Hackett is excited to announce that we will be hosting RED HOT: DOWN UNDER, an exhibition and celebration of red-headed men by international photographer Thomas Knights at our Sydney Gallery from 3-14 December.

posted 19 November 2014

Senior Art Specialist Henry Mulholland talks about some of the November 2014 auction highlights.

posted 18 November 2014

A MINIATURE prototype of one of Newcastle’s larger-than-life art controversies is about to go to under the hammer in Melbourne. Lyndon Dadswell’s Figure Group, also known as ‘Him ’n her’ has stood at the entrance to the Newcastle Cultural Centre in Laman Street since it opened in 1957

posted 11 October 2014

A worthy fundraising event for the Edmund Capon Fellowship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, was presented as a special auction feature with 'celebrity auctioneer' Edmund Capon providing an entertaining interlude within the evening's proceedings. Works generously donated by the six prominent artists: Bill Henson, Lindy Lee, John Olsen, Alex Seton, Tim Storrier and Guan Wei raised an impressive...

posted 11 October 2014

After a few minutes on the phone with the vendor it sounded like something special. Within an hour, Damian and I were standing in the owner's house looking at this gem of a painting which had been out of sight for a generation. This recently rediscovered 1929 painting by Margaret Preston had belonged to soldier, poet, journalist Leon Gellert. Through Gellert's newspaper columns Damian pieced...