Elizabeth Fortescue is a Saleroom Writer at The Art Newspaper. She specializes in the visual arts and art dealing, drawing on her previous experience as arts editor at The Daily Telegraph. Elizabeth's work has been featured in prominent publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekly Times, Gold Coast Bulletin, Cairns Post, The Age, and The Australian Financial Review.
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Elizabeth Fortescue's coverage focuses predominantly on the Australian art scene, with an emphasis on auctions, art sales, and exhibitions. She often includes expert commentary and cites data in her articles.
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Collectors often need to negotiate their other half's reaction when they bring home a challenging new piece of art.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
If Menzies’ decision last month to break with tradition and only show their sale lots in Melbourne was a risk, it paid off big time.
After years of underwhelming results, blockbuster auctions at home and abroad suggest the secondary art market is entering a new period of heady prices.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
The largest single-owner collection of prestigious timepieces to come to market in Australia forms part of next week's auction series of luxury items from the estate of radio man John Laws.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
If the first night of Bonhams Australia's series of six auctions of John Laws' estate is any indication, there is still plenty of gold in the radio star known for his “golden tonsils”.
What possessed the artist to pay a remote Portuguese workshop $670,000 in today's dollars to create artworks so massive they have never before been hung together?
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
More than 400 “esoteric” artworks and objects from the collections of three people woven into the fabric of Melbourne art are being auctioned, priced to sell.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
The contemporary art world is modelled on the innovations of Paul Durand-Ruel. A new exhibition explores the fruits of the Parisian's legacy.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
An auction of 187 artworks from the collection of the Print Council of Australia is set to test the market's appetite for this relatively accessible and endlessly fascinating corner of the art world.
By: Elizabeth Fortescue
Perhaps Edmund Capon was right all along. When the late director of the Art Gallery of NSW plucked four Sidney Nolan paintings out of storage and sent them to auction in 2007, there were howls of dismay.
