Artist Charles Blackman's former Woollahra home sold

The property at 12 Attunga Street, Woollahra - the former home of artist Charles Blackman - sold at weekend auction. 

The five bedroom-bedroom home sold for $2.8 million. Sotheby’s International agent Michael Pallier was quoting $2.3 million plus.

The upper level was the studio of Blackman when he and wife Barbara lived in the Attunga Street house.

The Blackmans sold the house in 1994 for $1.22 million.  

It has been renovated by architect Anthony Gill, since it last traded at $2.1 million in 2007.

There was an initial weekend clearance rate of 83% from the 319 auctions reported to Domain Group's Australian Property Monitors.

There are another 120 results yet to be reported given the total of 440 auctions.

Sotheby's sold the weekend's highest sale when a five-bedroom house on 697 square-metres at 73 O'Sullivan Road, Rose Bay fetched $4.39 million through Michael Pallier. It previously traded at $3,075,000 in 2007.

The Rose Bay property briefly had high price hopes which were revised down to $4.5 million.

It was available for rent at $3500 a week in 2012.