Elizabeth Fortescue
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- 11
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Two rare Delafield Cook landscapes hit market in a week (opens the original)
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A good romantic landscape by the late William Delafield Cook jnr hasn’t come to auction in Australia since 2024, when $687,500 was paid for Hillside 1. That painting set a record for the artist whose work is catnip to collectors of the bold and sweeping statement piece. Hillside 1 was painted between 2004 and 2011, demonstrating the painstakingly slow pace at which major works emerged from the artist’s studio. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Hiroshige’s woodblock prints sell for five times estimates (opens the original)
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The images were so irresistible that Vincent van Gogh made copies of the ones in his own collection. Now the contemporary world has shown its continuing appreciation of Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock prints, with a major New York auction far exceeding expectation. The live auction of 181 works was titled Hiroshige: Colours of the Four Seasons|The Alan Medaugh Collection and took place at Christie’s on September 15. Hiroshige’s most revered images fetched the top prices. Gift 5 articles to anyone
Judge’s not-so-sober art collection finds buyers (opens the original)
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When the art collection of former Family Court judge and Olympic rower Paul Guest was offered at auction this week, its contents may well have raised some eyebrows. Sedate images and orthodox subject matter might seem fitting to the near monastic habits a judge of the courts is meant to observe. But such works were nowhere to be seen as 140 gutsy, psychologically charged artworks from the Guest collection raced through Gibson’s Auctions of Melbourne. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each mon
Melbourne Miss Havisham emerges at women’s art sale (opens the original)
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Leonard Joel’s 10th annual Women Artists auction takes place on Monday night in Melbourne, with celebrated names placed alongside unknowns whose apparently grim biographies could rival Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Who’s heard of Jessie Lavington Evans, who was born in 1860? Very few, Saleroom would suggest. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Painting with origins in Afghanistan and Iran wins Artbank Prize (opens the original)
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Born into the persecuted Hazara minority in Afghanistan and taken to Iran as a little boy when his family escaped war, Melbourne artist and poet Elyas Alavi won the inaugural Artbank Prize in Sydney on Thursday. Alavi’s winning painting poetically addresses the plight he faced in Afghanistan and Iran, where queer identity is hidden for fear of state-sanctioned violence. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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