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Australian Art Auction Records is a service that documents historical art auction results and makes them available for users to analyise the Australian and New Zealand art market.

The service was commenced in the early 1970's by Ted Craig. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland in 1946, Ted Grew up in the Warwick and Toowoomba areas. He first became involved in auctioneering industry in 1968. After several years in Asia, Europe and Africa, he returned to Sydney to join one of the larger auctioneering companies as an auctioneer and valuer. After some years as manager of its arts department, he resigned to found Australian Art Auctions, a company specialising in the valuation and sale by auction of works of art. Based in Sydney, Ted travels extensively throughout Australia and overseas undertaking valuations. Ted conducted regular art auctions in Sydney until 2004.

Jarrod began working extensively in the computing industry in the early 1990's. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales in 1970, Jarrod grew up in the Central West of the state. Jarrod first became commercially involved with computers after completing an Honors degree in Mathematics and Computing at Charles Sturt University. Jarrod moved from Bathurst to Sydney in the early 1990's and since that time has worked mainly with large corporate companies; initially as a programmer and over more recent times as a practice manager specialising in Workforce Management. Jarrod brings to Australian Art Auction Records approx 15 years commercial computing experience. Jarrod runs his own Information Technology consulting company artvirtual.

Until 2004 the results were available by hardcopy publication and CD. From the first edition in 1975 the book was published every third year and, since volume 6 (1987) every second year until 2007. The CD was published each year since 1997 until 2007. Our results are now available exclusively on-line.

Ted and Jarrod hope you find this service easy to use, convenient and beneficial to analyise the Australian and New Zealand art auction market.

 
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Australian Art Auction Records Top 50 Most traded artists by value across Australian and New Zealand in 2010.
1. Sir Sidney NOLAN2. Cecil John BRACK3. Frank Jeffrey Edson SMART4. Frederick Ronald (Fred) WILLIAMS5. Arthur Merric Bloomfield BOYD6. Brett WHITELEY7. Charles BLACKMAN8. Sir Arthur Ernest STREETON9. John PERCEVAL10. Sir George Russell DRYSDALE
11. Lloyd Frederick REES12. Bronwyn OLIVER13. Norman Alfred Williams LINDSAY14. David BOYD15. Rosalie Norah King GASCOIGNE16. John OLSEN17. Ian FAIRWEATHER18. Emily Kame KNGWARREYE19. Ethel Carrick FOX20. Lin ONUS
21. Timothy Austin STORRIER22. Grace Cossington SMITH23. Anatjari TJAKAMARRA24. Del Katherine BARTON25. Rick AMOR26. Garry SHEAD27. Charles Frederick GOLDIE28. Rupert Charles Wulsten BUNNY29. Joel ELENBERG30. Elioth GRUNER
31. Donald Stuart Leslie FRIEND32. Hugh SAWREY33. Leroy Leveson Laurent Joseph DE MAISTRE34. Paddy BEDFORD35. John COBURN36. Charles Edward CONDER37. Colin McCAHON38. Howard ARKLEY39. Kevin Charles (Pro) HART40. Robert Henry DICKERSON
41. William Francis (Bill) ROBINSON42. Robert Edward KLIPPEL43. Clement MEADMORE44. Peter BOOTH45. Sir Edgar Bertram MacKENNAL46. Nora HEYSEN47. James Timothy GLEESON48. Turkey Tolson TJUPURRULA49. Margaret Hannah OLLEY50. Sir Hans HEYSEN

Further detail can be found in our most traded artists report.

Australian Art Auction Records Pty. Ltd, including New Zealand. Established 1973.