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DOONEY BUCKS TREND, AGAIN
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
In a pair of excellent results in a generally flat market, The Terrorist (160cm x 210cm enamel on board), one of the most provocative of Hazel Dooney's two-year-old Dangerous Career Babe series, sold tonight for $A14,640 at Menzies Art Brands' auction of contemporary Australian and international art in Sydney. This was just under the high-end of a pre-sale estimate of $A15,000 and an unexpectedly good result for a work under five years old (which are usually not even accepted for auction at major houses because of buyer resistance to new work). An earlier, smaller work, Buck (100cm x 150cm enamel on board) was also sold for $A8,540, in the middle of the pre-sale estimate range but three times more than the amount first paid for the work in 2001.
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AUCTION GETS DANGEROUS
Monday, 16 November 2009
One of the best – and certainly the most provocative – of Hazel Dooney's 2008 Dangerous Career Babes, The Terrorist, a 160cm x 210cm enamel on custom-built timber board, is to be auctioned on 16th December by Menzies Art Brands, in Sydney. One of two earlier 100cm x 150cm enamel on board works by Dooney, Buck, painted in 2001, is also included in the sale. The other, Career Babe: The Firefighter, will now be auctioned in March, 2010.
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SOTHEBY'S RESULT
Monday, 24 August 2009
Despite being in less than perfect condition, another of Hazel Dooney's early paintings, Ultra Violet One, was sold for $7,800 at Sotheby's Australia's auction of Important Australian Art in Melbourne on 24th August. This was more than six times the price paid for it at Dooney's debut gallery show in Brisbane, in 1998.
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ON THE MONEY
Thursday, 25 June 2009
One of Hazel Dooney's first paintings, Lolita At Sixteen, exceeded its cautious pre-sale estimate at Menzies Art Brands' auction of contemporary art in Sydney yesterday. Completed in 1997, the 1.45m x 3.0m enamel on canvas sold for $A13,000 – not including the 22 percent buyer's premium plus 10 percent sales tax – after what was described as 'spirited' bidding.
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BIG PIN-UPS: JANUARY
2009 Enamel on custom-made timber board, 2.00m x 1.33m. |
"Dooney has both extraordinary depth as an artist and a sound painterly technique."
– Vogue Australia, 2007
"Hazel Dooney walks the razor's edge between respect and celebrity in today's artworld."
– Australian Financial Review, 2006
"These works carry the subversive and slick trademarks of contemporary consumer culture. Her work comes across as an intense exploration of personal eroticism filtered through a candy-coloured palette."
– The Sunday Age Agenda, 2004
"Peter Booth, Hazel Dooney... Jeffrey Smart are all members of a select breed of artist who, for the benefit of all concerned, cast a somewhat critical and even destructive eye over their artwork. These artists do not turn out bad art."
– The Weekend Australian, 2003.
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