More Dooney paintings under the hammer

Menzies Art Brands http://www.menziesartbrands.com has announced that three more of Hazel Dooney’s enamel paintings – a large work from the now hard-to-find Lake Eyre On Acid series and two smaller Sports Babes, Resized For Easy Consumption – have been submitted for Menzies’ major auction of Australian art scheduled for 25th March, in Sydney.

Last December, Dooney’s large enamel on board painting, Dangerous Career Babe: The Aviatrix, painted in 2008, was sold for $A32,701 at Christie’s auction Modern And Contemporary Australian And South African Art in London. This exceeded the low-end of Christie’s pre-sale estimate and represented a new record for Dooney’s work at auction – an extraordinary achievement during a global economic downturn, especially for a young artist who has yet to exhibit in Europe.

Just a week before, one of Dooney’s earliest works, a ten-year-old enamel painting, Drowned Ophelia, was sold in Sydney, at Deutscher-Menzies’ high profile auction of contemporary art, for over $A13,000. With buyers premium and taxes added, this exceeded the very ambitious pre-sale estimate of $A10,000 to $A14,000. The painting was first sold for around $A1,200.

Check out her interview with Steve Gray  here… Hazel Dooney :)

self-portrait

Hazel Dooney Self portrait

For further information, please visit http://www.hazeldooney.com and Hazel’s popular blog, Self Vs. Self, at http://hazeldooney.blogspot.com

February 24, 2009 | Filed Under The Business of Art 

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