| | Register your selections for our one stop Lot Alert service covering all major antiques and collectables auctions in Australia and New Zealand. We will notify you of lots in forthcoming sales for artists that you nominate, and then report the prices realised after the sale. News and Opinion In our News and Opinion and News Bites sections we publish relevant and timely articles on the antiques, collectables and decorative arts markets by respected and independent writers such Peter Fish, formerly the Sydney Morning Herald ArtSmart columnist, Richard Brewster of The Age and other writers. Subscribers are notified by email of the publication of important and time-sensitive articles. By Peter Fish on 07-Mar-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD) Red and yellow and pink and green . . .remember the kindergarten song "I Can Sing a Rainbow"? Melbourne auctioneer Leonard Joel has rounded up a cavalcade of rainbow-hued radios which it will offer on Sunday, March 21, and there are plenty of eye-catching examples to brighten any vintage radio collector's day or lend sparkle to an otherwise bland lounge-room. By Peter Fish on 02-Mar-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD) Everyone in the auction world loves a “sleeper” - an item tagged with a modest estimate that astonishes everyone by selling for a motza. Many such items are from the exotic East - and everyone knows valuing oriental wares is an arcane art. By our own corrospondent on 02-Mar-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD) The late Dorothy Sheey matched a lifelong love of antiques and collectibles with an old fashioned caring attitude to nursing the sick that would have done Florence Nightingale proud. Born in 1895, Dorothy was orphaned early in life and raised by the Cottrell family in Hay, New South Wales. It was here she first fell in love with antiquities – the family (who dealt in furniture) constantly bringing beautiful pieces to the home. By Helen McKenzie on 28-Feb-2010 (Exclusive to the AASD) Art+Object Auckland will auction on Saturday the estate of one of New Zealand’s most intriguing collectors. Pat Newman (1918-2009) clearly had a wide range of interests. Ross Millar from A+O said “Newman’s collection is extraordinary in its breadth, unusual, to say the least, but with a strong mechanical and manufacturing theme. The essence of the man is that he would rather build it than buy it. We have less and less characters like him around today.” 28-Feb-2010 While many traditional art and antique fairs have languished in the past few years, one event sails serenely along, largely defying the recession: The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), held in Maastricht next month – March 12-21 – has been highly successful in maintaining its status and position as the number one classic art fair in the world. |
