Unapologetically Iris were new to Christie’s while Humphries’ auction saw registered bidders from 41 countries ...

A depiction of Barry Humphries painting at Shoalhaven by the renowned Australian painter Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, who died in 1999, sold for £32,760 over three times the pre-sale high ...

“I wish I’d been nicer about his painting when he was alive,” he says of his dad, Barry Humphries. “I always used to be a bit mean about it. He hated it … it really annoyed him.

The first works to feature in big local auctions are emerging on the back of a blockbuster sale of Barry Humphries’ personal collection in London.

A pair of Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage glasses have sold at auction for more than 25 times their estimated value. The glasses - which were expected to go for between £1,000 and £1,500 - sold for ...

A pair of Barry Humphries’ Dame Edna Everage glasses ... The top price of the sale was lot 42, Charles Conder’s painting Sand dunes, Ambleteuse which sold for £239,400. The veteran stage ...

Barry Humphries, known for his diva alter ego Dame ... And among Humphries’ impressive collection of 19th-century art are some objects that are rather less subtle: his stage costumes as Dame ...