Women dominate in best Indigenous art sale in a decade
There was no sign of cost-of-living pressures at Deutscher and Hackett’s sale, where estimates were blitzed and total sales topped $3.2 million.
Source: afr.com
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There was no sign of cost-of-living pressures at Deutscher and Hackett’s sale, where estimates were blitzed and total sales topped $3.2 million.
An entire exhibition of desert art works from 1990 was the last tranche from Cbus’s collection.
Works by a who’s who of Aboriginal art will feature in the first big Indigenous art sale of the year.
A small but powerful assemblage in France of work by the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye is a harbinger of the resurgent interest in Australia’s top Indigenous artists.