Art auction and exhibition catalogues

• Overview
• Auction houses and galleries represented in the collection
• See also Finding resources for Visual Arts

Overview

The Archives holds a collection of Australian art auction and exhibition sale catalogues dating from the 1960s through to the end of the 1990s. It comprises some 250 catalogues from major auction houses such as Christie's and Sothebys, along with those from private galleries such as Deutscher~Menzies and Lauraine Diggins.

The catalogues are useful in tracing the work of various Australian artists, whilst providing a rich source of images for studies on all aspects of Australian art, from the colonial period to the late twentieth century.

Larger, more complete collections of such catalogues are held in the libraries of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Auction houses and galleries represented in the collection

• Bridget McDonnell Gallery
• Christie's
• Christopher Day Gallery
• Deutscher Fine Art
• Deutscher ~ Menzies
• Earl Gallery
• Geoff K. Gray
• Goodman's
• Joseph Brown Gallery
• Joshua McClelland Print Room
• Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
• Leonard Joel
• J.R. Lawson's
• Martin Browne Fine Art
• Mason Gray Strange
• Phillips
• Rex Irwin
• Rushton's Fine Art
• Savill Galleries
• Sotheby's
• Tom Silver Fine Art
• Trevor Bussell
• William S. Ellenden
• plus other miscellaneous catalogues