Just sold: Aug 18 – 24, 2025
1,681 artworks sold with a published price in the week of Aug 18 – 24, 2025, totalling $22,598,338 (median $1,331).
Top sales
- $1,593,540 · Howard Arkley, “Contemporary Units 1988” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $796,770 · John Russell, “Roches, Belle-Île Rocks, Belle-Île (circa 1895)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $717,093 · Russell Drysdale, “Boy with a Lizard (1966)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $632,212 · Pierre Bonnard, “Bouquet de Cheminée (also known as Fleurs sur une Cheminée) 1913” · Menzies, Aug 20, 2025
- $557,739 · Arthur Streeton, “The Loch Ard Gorge (1932)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $497,981 · Grace Cossington Smith, “Chair and Drapery 1958” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $478,062 · Brett Whiteley, “Pelican 1 (1983, cast later)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $368,262 · Rita Angus, “Before the Demolition” · Art+Object, Aug 19, 2025
- $342,611 · Tom Roberts, “Sherbrooke 1920” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $326,676 · Sidney Nolan, “Ned Kelly: The Return 1964” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $318,708 · Fred Williams, “You Yangs Landscape (1978)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $318,708 · William Dobell, “The Smoko (circa 1944)” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $276,593 · Rick Amor, “The Waiter 1997” · Menzies, Aug 20, 2025
- $263,561 · Don Binney, “Summer Fernbird III” · Art+Object, Aug 19, 2025
- $238,287 · Ralph Hotere, “I can hear you making small holes in the silence” · Art+Object, Aug 19, 2025
- $238,287 · Tony Fomison, “Nightman” · Art+Object, Aug 19, 2025
- $237,080 · Rupert Bunny, “Sunbath (also known as Bain de Soleil and Sun Bath) c1915-16” · Menzies, Aug 20, 2025
- $237,080 · Ian Fairweather, “African Family 1963” · Menzies, Aug 20, 2025
- $227,456 · Colin McCahon, “Black Diamond, White Square (No. 8, The First Gate Series), 1961” · Art+Object, Aug 19, 2025
- $215,128 · Margaret Olley, “Ipswich Hotel 1948” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
- $205,469 · Arthur Boyd, “Figure in a Hillside 1961-62” · Menzies, Aug 20, 2025
- $199,192 · William Piguenit, “Pitt Water, Tasmania 1910” · Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025
New artist records
- Howard Arkley: “Contemporary Units 1988” at $1,593,540 (previous high $1,073,327 across 95 earlier results)
- Rick Amor: “The Waiter 1997” at $276,593 (previous high $206,078 across 109 earlier results)
- Margaret Olley: “Ipswich Hotel 1948” at $215,128 (previous high $153,623 across 133 earlier results)
- William Piguenit: “Pitt Water, Tasmania 1910” at $199,192 (previous high $87,881 across 15 earlier results)
- Rah Fizelle: “Sleeping Nude (circa 1938-1939)” at $127,483 (previous high $29,082 across 7 earlier results)
- Cj Hendry: “American Flag 2015” at $59,270 (previous high $45,557 across 15 earlier results)
- Llew Summers: “Sprung Man” at $41,881 (previous high $3,536 across 10 earlier results)
- Ildiko Kovacs: “Aquine 2021” at $37,933 (previous high $33,296 across 18 earlier results)
- Naata Nungurrayi: “Marrapinti 2004” at $30,030 (previous high $26,534 across 10 earlier results)
- John Reynolds: “Kepler’s Dream” at $19,497 (previous high $16,537 across 164 earlier results)