Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Lying in a Paris cemetery next to her long-time partner Rachel “Cherry” Dunn, Agnes Goodsir must have allowed herself a modest smile when one of her long-forgotten paintings emerged from the shadows this week to create a windfall for its UK-based vendor. That canny collector had snaffled Goodsir’s painting, Still Life , for the equivalent of about $300 through British auctioneers, Toovey’s, in 2012.
Still Life, by Agnes Goodsir, was estimated at between $8000 and $12,000 but sold for $27,500 in Leonard Joel’s Women Artists auction. At Leonard Joel’s annual Women Artists auction in Melbourne in Monday, the piece more than repaid the vendor’s faith, fetching $27,500 (including 25 per cent buyer’s premium, as will all sale prices here) – a 73 times return on the London spend. Still Life , undated, in oil on canvas, bolted away from its pre-sale estimate of $8000 to $12,000, the final price falling just shy of Goodsir’s Australian auction record of $35,000 for Standing Nude , 1902, sold through Menzies in 2022.
Women Artists was “a wonderful auction to put together”, Leonard Joel specialist Hannah Ryan told Saleroom. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Introducing your Newsfe.
