Forthcoming auction: Selected works from the Fletcher Trust Collection
SEVENTY SEVEN WORKS FROM NEW ZEALAND’S LARGEST CORPORATE COLLECTION
Wednesday 10 September 2014
Catalogue available 21 August - Catalogue online from 21 August www.fineartauction.co.nz - On view daily from Monday 1st September
MILAN MRKUSICH Meta Grey - Light Series, 1970 Oil on canvas 112 x 84cm
GRETCHEN ALBRECHT Untitled, 1974
Watercolour 111 x 74cm
RHONA HASZARD Still Life: Magnolias, 1927 Oil on board 40 x 32cm
GORDON WALTERS Untitled Acrylic on canvas 490 x 610
Charles F Goldie fetched $352,000 April 2014
International Art Centre’s premiere sale category comfortably holds New Zealand’s highest art auction record following the recent sale of C F Goldie’s Kawhena $732,800.
April 2014 Important, Early & Rare auction highlights included Colin McCahon’s Landscape 1959 fetching $334,000 and Goldie’s Atama Paparangi selling for $352,000, a sale total of over $1.6 million and a sell rate of 85% including post sale negotiation.
Colin McCahon fetched $334,000 April 2014
Auction
6:30pm Wednesday 6 August
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Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
1 PETER SIDDELL 1935 - 2011
House on Fawn Hill
Oil on board 60 x 60
Signed & dated 1971
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland since 1971
2 PATRICIA FRANCE 1911 - 1995
Two Figures on Beach Oil on board 43 x 55
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
PROVENANCE Collection of Jane Evans (1946 - 2012)
3 WILLIAM ALEXANDER (BILL) SUTTON 1917 - 2000
Marlborough Sounds Oil on canvas 44 x 49.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
4 EDWARD BULLMORE 1933 - 1978
Hawke No 7 1977
Mixed media on paper 40 x 55
Signed, inscribed & dated 1977 on backing board verso
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
ESTIMATE
Private Collection, Rotorua
5 CHARLES TOLE 1935 - 2011
Waikato Landscape Oil on board 29 x 34
Signed & dated 1945
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
Signed & inscribed
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
6 J S PARKER b. 1944
Plain Song The Yellow Ladder Oil on heavy paper 100 x 70
b. 1943
Old Boots
Oil on board 41 x 44
Signed, inscribed & dated 1/8/86
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 8,000
8 RALPH
1931 - 2013
Wiremu Kingi Whiti to Hapurona- Rangiaohia 1861
Watercolour 56 x 40
Signed
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 25,000
7 DICK FRIZZELL
HOTERE
9 DON BINNEY
1940 - 2012
Effgy / LandfordsEndeaaourtoFirthofThamess
Mixed media on arches resin 50.5 x 66.5
Signed & dated 1989
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
10 GARTH TAPPER
1927 - 1999
The Jehoaah’s Witness Visit
Oil on panel 34 x 37
Signed Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
ILLUSTRATED
p. 94 Garth Tapper New Zealand Painter Tapper Art 1998
11 JANE EVANS
1940 - 2012
Dorje
Acrylic on Arches paper 67.5 x 50
Signed & dated 1990
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
Illustrated p. 73 Jane Eaans, John Coley, Hazard Press 1997
12 DON BINNEY
1940 - 2012
Maungakiekie
Oil and acrylic on canvasboard 51 x 61
Signed & dated 1998
ESTIMATE
$20,000 - 30,000
13 ELIZABETH REES
b. 1967
Twilight Team
Oil on canvas 115 x 120
Signed, inscribed & dated 2009
ESTIMATE
$12,000 - 14,000
PROVENANCE
Ex Milford Galleries, Dunedin
14 DICK FRIZZELL
b. 1943
Tiki
Gouache on paper 19.5 x 18.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 6/9/1990
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased from exhibition Dick Frizzell
Gow Langsford Gallery, The Strand, Auckland, 1990
b. 1937
Vacuum Print ‘Definition’ I
Plastic moulded sculpture with wooden frame 21.5 x 21.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1969 verso
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
PROVENANCE
Purchased from artist by current owner, 1969
b. 1973
This Little Light of Mine
Screenprint & glitter on paper, edition of 35, 43 x 43
Signed, inscribed & dated 2013
ESTIMATE
$1,700 - 2,000
15 GREER TWISS
16 RUEBEN PATTERSON
17 MICHAEL SMITHER
b. 1939
Central Otago Landscape
Double sided watercolour 38 x 63
Signed & dated 1970
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Frederick & Evelyn Page, Wellington
18 IAN SCOTT 1945 - 2013
Journey Up The Rakaia Oil and screenprint on canvas 69.5 x 89.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 verso
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
19 CHARLOTTE HANDY b. 1967
Yesterday Or A Long Time Ago
Acrylic & oil on canvas 94.2 x 74
Signed & dated 2007
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 7,000
$3,000 - 4,000
20 J S PARKER
b. 1944
Plain Song Midwinter Stories
Oil on heavy paper 100 x 70 Signed, inscribed & dated 2005
Signed, inscribed & dated 2006
ESTIMATE
$11,000 - 13,000
Signed & inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$27,000 - 32,000
22 KARL MAUGHAN
b. 1964
Musselburgh Oil on linen 122 x 183
21 MICHAEL HIGHT
b. 1961
Gimmerburn Oil on canvas 51 x 101.4
21
1920 - 2012
Coffee Pot & Pear Still Life, 1959
Oil on board 33.5 x 410
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
Oil on canvas 75 x 103
Signed & dated 1977
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
24 LOUISE HENDERSON
b. 1944
Coromandel Coast
23 JAN NIGRO
25 TOM MUTCH
b. 1951
Religious Life - Emile Series Oil on board 121 x 80
Signed & dated
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
26 MICHAEL SMITHER
b. 1939
Rocks and Sand Oil on board 61 x 91
Signed & dated 1967
ESTIMATE
$15,000 - 20,000
Felix Kelly is one of New Zealand’s most interesting expatriate artists. Born in Epsom in 1914 he claimed to be two years younger most of his adult life. Kelly studied briefly, and even seems to have taught drafting at Elam School of Fine Art. He was only 21 when he left New Zealand in 1935. He never returned. In London Kelly continued his New Zealand occupation of graphic design, working for Lintas, the advertising wing of Unilevers. He also freelanced as an illustrator and cartoonist, especially for Lilliput. His cartoons are not unlike those of the slightly younger Ronald Searle. After the war and the RAF, the focus of his graphic art shifted to book illustration, dust-jacket design and contributions on interior decoration to such fashion magazines as Ideal Home and Harper’s Bazaar. In the 1950s and 60s he was acknowledged as one of England’s top designers for the theatre, working with the likes of Sir John Gielgud and Dame Sybil Thorndike.
Kelly’s ambition had always been to succeed as a painter. Emerging in the context of Surrealism and British Neo-Romanticism, he exhibited alongside important British artists such as Lucian Freud, John Piper and Frances Hodgkins. He attracted the attention of the prominent critic and writer, Herbert Read. Kelly’s paintings are characterised by his interest in a world forgotten by progress, great houses falling into dilapidation, wind-blasted trees, abandoned locomotives often invested with an eerie watchfulness. Rapidly, Kelly assembled a client list resembling a page from Who’s Who or De Brett’s. In late career, his knowledge of architecture led to involvement in house design, most notably his collaboration on the redesign of Highgrove for the Prince of Wales. His most celebrated project was, however, the mural cycle at Castle Howard associated with the filming of Brideshead Reaisited in the 1980s.
1914 - 1994
First Act of Duel of Angels (Old Vic.1962)
Oil on board 29 x 39
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Australia
Exhibited: London in the Country and other Paintings by Felix Kelly,
Arthur Jeffress Gallery November 1962, Cat no. 23
Original Arthur Jeffress label affxedverso
REFERENCE
Fix The Art and Life of Felix Kelly
Donald Bassett, Darrow Press 2008
Kelly travelled a great deal. Paintings of Spain and Italy in the 1940s were followed by West African scenes in the 50s and ante-bellum houses in America’s Deep South in the 60s. Trips to Russia, Thailand, India and Egypt in the 70s and 80s each led to an exhibition of exotic paintings. In late career, Kelly would execute a small sketch characterised by loose brushwork, which would then be converted into a carefully executed big-scale painting. Both types of work appear for sale from time to time. Perhaps most interesting for a New Zealand audience are the paintings of Auckland subjects done decades after he had left home. Auckland’s West Coast beaches or Takapuna with Rangitoto beyond, or paddle-steamers on the Waitemata, were evoked with an increasing degree of fantasy well into the 1960s. A quirky humour pervades his work.
Felix Kelly has to be one of New Zealand’s most individual artistic exports. A comprehensive exhibition of his earlier work, curated by Donald Bassett and mounted by the Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery, toured several New Zealand centres in 2008-9. A second edition of Donald Bassett’s book Fix; The Art and Life of Felix Kelly, will soon be published.
27 FELIX KELLY
28 PETER SIDDELL
1935 - 2011
Western View
Pastel on paper 26 x 62
Signed
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist’s Family
29 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON 1877 - 1973
Gothic Doorway Quimper Oil on board 39 x 31.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$9,000 - 13,000
30 RITA ANGUS
1908 - 1970
Study for Fishing Boats, Island Bay
Watercolour 28 x 28
Signed & dated 1949
ESTIMATE
$12,000 - 16,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Frederick & Evelyn Page, Wellington
31 PETER SIDDELL 1935 - 2011
Houses and Two Volcanoes
Oil on board 29.3 x 60
Signed & dated 1970
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland since 1970
32 EVELYN PAGE
1899 - 1888
Towards Eichardts - circa 1941
Oil on canvas board 31 x 51
Inscribed verso Queenstown
ESTIMATE
$30,000 - 40,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
CSA Gallery Christchurch , 1942 catalogue number 178
The Group Show, Christchurch, 1943 catalogue number 30
New Zealand Academy of Fine Art 1944, catalogue number 47
New Zealand Academy of Fine Art 1970 Eaelyn Page Retrospectiae catalogue number 19
Eaelyn Page Seaen Decades 1986, Robert McDougall Gallery catalogue number 10
Illustrated p. 16 Eaelyn Page Seaen Decades, Janet Paul and Neil Roberts, Robert McDougall Art Gallery 1986
33 OLIVIA SPENCER BOWER
1905 - 1982
Geese, Canterbury Farm Watercolour 39 x 55
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased by current owner from International Art Centre, 1987
34 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1877 - 1973
Arthurs Pass, Calm After the Storm Oil on board 24 x 35
Signed & dated 1943
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
35
SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON 1877 - 1973
Breton Girl
Oil on canvas 46 x 37
Signed & dated 1913
ESTIMATE
$12,000 - 16,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, France
36 IVY GRACE
1905 - 1976
Rakaia Oil on board 36 x 41
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
37 A LOIS WHITE 1910 - 1995
Waikato Riaer and Lake Arapuni
Oil on board 34.4 x 40
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 4,000
PROVENANCE Ex Artist’s Estate Collection
38
1910 - 1995
Whakapapa Riaer, King Country
Watercolour 53 x 71
Signed
ESTIMATE
$20,000 - 30,000
PETER MCINTYRE
FIFE
39 SYLVIA SIDDELL
1941 - 2011
Sinbad Discoaers the Nest of the Giant Roc Oil on canvas 90 x 60
Signed & dated 2009
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist’s Family
1935 - 2011
Oil on canvas 90 x 150
Signed & dated 2009
ESTIMATE
$45,000 - 65,000 PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Family
40 PETER SIDDELL
Eaentide
41 PHILIP TRUSTTUM
b. 1940
Landscape - Garden Series
Oil on board 61 x 56
Signed & dated 1973 - 74
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Jane Evans (1946 - 2012)
EXHIBITED
Collectors Exhibition, Suter Gallery, Nelson 1981
Suter Gallery label affxedverso
42 STANLEY PALMER
b. 1936
Moturoa - Cathedral Rock - Ahuahu
Oil on linen 89.4 x 119.2
Signed & dated 2013
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 22,000
43 FRANCES HODGKINS
1869 - 1947
Woman with Children
Watercolour 33.5 x 24.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$25,000 - 35,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Bay of Plenty
Purchased by current vendors from Trustees of Mrs Jocelyn Tidswell’s Estate
44 FRANCES HODGKINS
1869 - 1947
Girl Feeding Poultry
Watercolour 33.5 x 22
Signed & dated 1890
ESTIMATE
$25,000 - 35,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland
International Art Centre c. 1984
EXHIBITED
The Hen Wife, Otago Art Society 7 November, 1890
REFERENCE
p. 120 & 224 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand, E H McCormick
Anecdotal genre scenes of farmyard animals and the housemaid Phemie going about her daily tasks became synonymous with Frances Hodgkin’s early work. Quaint rural idylls had a lower status than subjects that captured the epic of grandeur of lakes and mountains. Even when Hodgkins shifted focus and painted just the figure, her work amused her family. ‘They were very funny at my expense tonight over the head and made scathing remarks about carved out turnips and beetroot ears, expressions more agricultural than artistic’, she wrote to her sister Isabel in April 1892.
Frances Hodgkins A Priaate Viewing Joanne Drayton, Random House 2005
45 EILEEN ROSEMARY MAYO
British, Australian, New Zealander 1906 -1994
Sea Holly
Tempera on board 41 x 33
Signed
Signed & inscribed on original artist’s label affxedverso
ESTIMATE
$25,000 - 35,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Sir Edward Beddington - Behrens 1897 - 1968 & his wife Princess Irena Obolensky Private Collection, Auckland by descent
Sea Holly is one of the finest paintings by Dame Eileen Mayo to be offered for sale. It features a surrealist portrayal of sea holly in flower on a sandy shore with a backdrop of sky and ocean. When painted, Mayo was studying at Academie Montmarte, Paris under Ferdinand Léger. This work is the original egg tempera painting reproduced as a Christmas card by the Medici Society, London. The National Library of New Zealand holds a copy of the card in its collection.
Widely acclaimed in London in the twenties, Eileen Mayo was a strikingly beautiful young woman who initially supplemented her income by modeling for some of the leading artists of the time including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She studied design at the Slade School and Central School of Arts and Crafts. Instructed in lino cutting by Claude Flight, Mayo was invited to participate in The Second Exhibition of British Linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Kenneth Clark described her designs as 'outstandingly good' and her entries from 1930 to 1934 were acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She enjoyed a very successful career as an illustrator and contributor to publications such as Art News & Reaiews. Mayo was one of the few British artists using egg tempera in the forties. While this choice of medium meant sacrificing the family egg ration for the essential albumen, it was the ideal vehicle to showcase her original and technically brilliant work.
After extensive travels Mayo returned to London in 1936 to study under Henry Moore and Robert Medley at the Chelsea Polytechnic. By 1946 she had works in both the Royal Academy and the Arts Council touring exhibition, and had completed further books on animals for Pleiades Books.
In 1952 she settled in Australia with the intention of being closer to her mother and sister who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1921. Inspired by the natural history of the southern hemisphere she taught, exhibited and was commissioned by both Qantas and the New South Wales Tourist Board. In 1962 she crossed the Tasman to live in New Zealand while still carrying out Australian commissions for stamp and decimal coinage design. At the invitation of the New Zealand Treasury Mayo completed several commissions for first-day covers and stamps, including the Captain Cook bicentenary stamps in 1969 and for the Unicef and Antarctic Treaty anniversaries. Mayo's print making continued unabated, and she continued to exhibit internationally. Mayo lived in Christchurch, teaching at the University of Canterbury until 1972. For more than three years she worked on an underwater diorama with Otago Museum. In 1994, one week before her death at the age of 87, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Sea Holly is presented in it’s original frame which bears this label verso
46 CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
1822 - 1897
Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu
Watercolour 60 x 90
Signed & dated 1874
ESTIMATE
$45,000 - 65,000
PROVENANCE
Fine Art Auction, International Art Centre, 1971
Fine Paintings & Watercolours, International Art Centre March 1988
National Treasures Art Auction, International Art Centre, March 1993
Private Collection, Auckland
Charles Decimus Barraud was a New Zealand pharmacist and artist born in Camberwell, Surrey, England 1822.
He emigrated with his family to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington in August 1849. His wife was a cousin of Judge Henry Samuel Chapman, and it was Chapman who encouraged the emigration, providing the Barrauds with a cottage until their own house had been built.
From 1850 onwards Barraud won recognition for his landscapes which are of considerable historical value. He painted portraits of the Maori chiefs Honiana Te Puni-kokopu and Te Rangihaeata. Barraud’s 1853, Baptism of the Maori chief Te Puni in Otaki Church is held in the National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu is one of Charles Decimus Barraud’s finest watercolours and has been held in a private collection since it’s acquisition from International Art Centre in 1993. When auctioned in 1971, Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu fetched a record for the artist’s work, achieving the highest price for a 19th Century New Zealand watercolour. Seventeen years later the painting again made headlines when it fetched a record $112,000 at International Art Centre’s March 1988 auction. In 2003 International Art Centre sold Barraud’s View of Wellington for $225,000, a record which still stands.
1886 - 1965
Aaignon Oil on board 35 x 57
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
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48 FRANCES
1869 - 1947
The Waterwheel, c. 1922
Watercolour 20 x 30.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$27,000 - 35,000
47 JOHN WEEKS
HODGKINS
49 SIR WILLIAM FOX
1812 - 1893
Mt Egmont from the Recreation Ground, New Plymouth
Watercolour 23 x 33
Inscribed & dated 1884 verso
ESTIMATE
$20,000 - 30,000
PROVENANCE
Wilkie Family Collection
Poet’s Bridge in Pukekura Park was opened 11 March 1884. For over half a century it served the park until deterioration caused it to be replaced just before the second World War. Its present colour scheme is based on the famous red lacquer bridge in Nikko, Japan.
Pukekura Park, established 1876, was known as the Recreation Ground or ‘The Rec’. It was the vision of local lawyer, Robert Clinton Hughes who persuaded the Taranaki Provincial Government to purchase 12 hectares of wasteland ‘near New Plymouth’ as a recreational reserve.
Sir William Fox arrived in Wellington in 1852 and become editor of New Zealand Gazette and Britannia Spectator, before he was appointed Resident Agent at Nelson for the New Zealand Company. He subsequently played a leading part in politics and held the offceofPremieronfour occasions. He was knighted in 1879. In his early years in New Zealand Fox carried out much exploration in the Wairarapa and in the South Island.
Fox’s greatest contribution to New Zealand history after the struggle for self-government in the 1850s was his work in Taranaki in the early 1880s as a member of the West Coast Commission, which consisted of Francis Dillon Bell and himself. A third commissioner, Hone Mohi Tawhai, declined to serve when he heard that his colleagues were to be Fox and Bell. No doubt he questioned the propriety of their appointments. The commission was charged with the duty of inquiring into the numerous promises and engagements allegedly made by successive government offcialstothe Taranaki Maori, and into the disputed land claims in that province. Fox had been a member of the government which had confiscated the land and with Bell had co-authored a pamphlet defending the Waitara purchase which had led to the war. Bell left for England as Agent General and Fox was left the daunting task of ensuring that the recommendations of the commission were carried out. He did an enormous amount of work and succeeded, not in satisfying the Maori, but in achieving a peaceful solution to Taranaki’s land problems and in helping to establish a lasting peace. A grateful Parliament awarded him the large sum of £2,000.
THREE RARE WATERCOLOURS BY SIR WILLIAM FOX FROM THE WILKIE FAMILY
COLLECTION LOTS 49 - 51
Fox Glacier was named to commemorate his visit to the region as Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1872. The Wairarapa town of Foxton, founded in 1885, was also named after him.
In his later years Fox continued to undertake considerable physical exercise, climbing Mount Taranaki in 1892, aged 80. He died on 23 June 1893.
The Wilkie Collection of watercolours by Sir William Fox was deposited on loan to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1964 by Mr & Mrs J C Wilkie. The collection consisted of some three hundred and fifty paintings of which one hundred were New Zealand scenes of significant historical importance. The Wilkie’s lived and farmed at Ohingaiti, not far from Westoe, Fox’s station in the Rangitikei.
50 SIR WILLIAM FOX 1812 - 1893
Cattle with Mt Egmont Beyond Watercolour 22 x 28
ESTIMATE
$15,000 - 20,000
PROVENANCE Wilkie Family Collection
51 SIR WILLIAM FOX 1812 - 1893
Haaana Bay, Cuba Watercolour Inscribed & dated 1853
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE Wilkie Family Collection
In 1851, Fox travelled to London on behalf of a group of Wellington settlers. There he met Edward Gibbon Wakefield, elder brother of William and Arthur. He discussed his ideas about a constitution for New Zealand, strongly supporting self-rule, provincial autonomy, and two elected houses of parliament. He also attempted to meet Earl Grey, the British minister for colonial possessions, but was refused. When a constitution was promulgated the following year it incorporated some of Fox’s ideas, but was not satisfactory to him. Before returning to New Zealand, Fox and his wife spent some time travelling in Canada, the United States and Cuba.
Haaana Bay was painted on that trip and shows a highly detailed view of Havana Bay with the Morro Castle, a picturesque fortress guarding the entrance to the bay. The watercolour has the following inscriptions in Fox’s hand at the bottom of the painting:
Artillery Barracks 1853, Punto Fort, Gulf of Mexico, Moro (sic) Castle
52 RHONA HASZARD
1901 - 1931
Sunlight and Shadows, c. 1926
Oil on canvas board 37 x 27
Signed
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased from International Art Centre
Important, Early & Rare July 2013
A Canterbury Estate collection
53 CHRISTOPHER AUBREY
c. 1830 - 1902
Central Otago Settlement
Watercolour 42 x 63
Signed & dated 1884
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, United Kingdom
54 CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
1822 - 1897
Wairarapa Landscape
Watercolour 32 x 45
Signed
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 9,000
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55 CHRISTOPHER AUBREY c. 1830 - 1902
Lignite Mine, Southland
Watercolour 37.5 x 57.5
Signed & dated 1881
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
56 FRANCES HODGKINS
1869 - 1947
Harbour Scene
Watercolour 21 x 12
Signed & dated 1898
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
REFERENCE
p. 146 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand, E H McCormack, Auckland City Art Gallery 1954
Catalogue no. 91
57 PETER MCINTYRE 1910 - 1995
Wellington Oil on canvas board 40 x 49.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, The Netherlands
58 IDA G EISE
1891 - 1978
Road Under Construction
Auckland Harbour Bridge Oil on board 25 x 31.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased directly from the artist who informed the buyer at the time that Road Under Construction featured the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, 1959
59 GARTH TAPPER 1927 - 1999
Matakatia Bay Whangaparaoa Oil on panel 26 x 34
Signed & dated 1981
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
60 JOHN GULLY 1819 - 1888
Lady Bowen Falls
Watercolour 80 x 72.5
Signed & dated 1879
ESTIMATE
$20,000 - 30,000
61 MARGARET OLROG STODDART
1865 - 1934
Coastal Scene
Watercolour 25 x 35
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
62 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1877 - 1973
Cottage Farmyard
Oil on board 26 x 37
Signed & dated 1911
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
63 MARGARET OLROG STODDART
1865 - 1934
Summer Roses
Watercolour 47 x 60
Signed
ESTIMATE
$16,000 - 22,000
64 LEONARD MITCHELL 1925 - 1980
Heeni Te Kiri Karamu Giaing Water to Lieutenant-Colonel Booth at Gate Pa 1864, Painted c. 1960 Ink on paper 38 x 53.5
Signed
Inscription verso
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
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65 ARTIST UNKNOWN 1835 - 1913
Maori Artifacts Oil on canvas 26 x 36
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
1891 - 1949
Ko-Here ‘It is Mary’ Oil on canvas 20 x 14.5
Signed
Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
67 VERA CUMMINGS
1891 - 1949
He-Tino-Toa ‘Great Warrior’ Oil on canvas 20 x 14.5
Signed Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
66 VERA CUMMINGS
68 ANDREW COATES
b. 1955
North Island Homestead
Oil on board 39 x 59.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Canterbury
69 ANDREW COATES
b. 1955
Fields after Haraest
Oil on board 28.7 x 58
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Canterbury
70 ANDREW COATES
b. 1955
Sheep at Wanaka Oil on board 22.5 x 35
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Canterbury
71 MARK CROSS b. 1955
Two Species, Two Agendas
Sheep Country Series
Oil on canvas 71 x 183
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
This painting is one of a series of 2004/05 paintings entitled Sheep Country. The artist was interested in the marks that sheep made on the land, while using the sheep-like tendency to follow one another, as a metaphor for the stifling of lateral and free thinking in a conservative country. The two species suggested in the title are sheep and humans, and while their tracks (hooves and tyres) follow each other in the foreground, they are tangentially separated in middle distance when the sheep take a sharp left hand turn up the slope. While the two species have agendas different from each other, they are bound relentlessly by their own stubborn predispositions. The paintings of Sheep Country were mainly of the South Island. Two Species, Two Agendas is of the Manorburn area of Central Otago. MARK CROSS
ESTIMATE
$8,000
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
73 MARK CROSS b. 1955
Ridgeline, King Country Oil on canvas 71 x 137
72 PETER MCINTYRE 1910 - 1995
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice Watercolour 53 x 69
- 12,000 73
74
Born in Balclutha 1922 Douglas Badcock had a highly successful professional art career. Preferring to paint en plein-air, mostly in oil, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading landscape painters. His paintings are included in the Queen of England’s collection and King of Thailand’s collection. Douglas was a Kelliher Art Award winner and several books have been published on his work. He came second in the 1959 Kelliher Art Award and third in the 1962 award.
Badcock held his first exhibition in Wellington in 1960, selling out within two days. A review at the time described him as ‘a realistic painter and absolutely sincere with a natural talent and a high technical standard ... A master of the New Zealand landscape, he paints New Zealand as he sees it’. He produced at least three publications: My Kind Of Country then later My Kind of Painting and A Painter in Fiji.
In a Listener article in 2004, Mr Badcock said: I paint seas, skies, mountains. I paint the world I know, as it appears to me. I haae an image that is there and I haae to record it. When I’m painting I let the subject reaeal itself. Picasso said I don’t seek, I find. And finding is a reaelation – intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. The primary motiaation is self-expression, but if there’s no aision, if we don’t see beauty in nature any more, then we’re nowhere.
74 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Autumn, Central Otago No. 6, Waikerikeri Valley Oil on board 39 x 55
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Artist’s Estate Collection
75 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Early Morning, Moraen Ferry Road, Wakatipu Oil on board 47 x 68
Signed
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Artist’s Estate Collection
76 RICHMOND BEETHAM
1836 –1912
Te Rauparana
Watercolour 24 x 22
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
77 CHARLES MERYON
1828 - 1868
Nouaelle - Zeland, Presqu’ile de Bank, 1845
Engraving 11.5 x 29.5
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
78 WALTER WRIGHT
1866 - 1933
Bit of Our Harbour
Oil on board 18 x 30
Signed & dated 1888
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5000
PROVENANCE
Exhibited Auckland Society of Arts, 1888. Cat. no. 104 Titled ‘Bit of Our Harbour’
79 J B WARNER
New Zealand 19th Century
Regatta Day, Waitemata 1891
Oil on canvas 34 x 54
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
80 A MAY MOORE
New Zealand 19th Century
Portrait of Horatio Nelson Warner Oil on canvas 70 x 50
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 3,000
Miss A May Moore exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts as a working member 1899 - 1906. Her chosen subject, Horatio Nelson Warner, was a prominent colonist who arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1843 and settled in Auckland. He worked with Charles Heaphy as a draughtsman and was Deputy Commissioner of the Waste Lands Committee. An artist himself, he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts in 1875. He was the father of artist J B Warner, Lot 79.
PROVENANCE LOTS 78 - 80 Warner Family Collection
81 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Sycamores & Rocky Bluffs, Arthurs Point Oil on board 35 x 45
Signed. Inscribed & dated 1966 verso
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
82 DOUGLAS BADCOCK b. 1973
Whitechapel, Near Arrowtown, Central Otago
Oil on board 29.5 x 39.5
Signed. Inscribed & dated 1995 verso
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
83 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
1835 - 1913
Lake Waikaremoana
Watercolour 42 x 63
Signed & dated 1879
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
84 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE 1835 - 1913
Walter Peak, Lake Wakatipu
Watercolour 18 x 34
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
85 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE 1835 - 1913
Pelorus Sound
Watercolour 15 x 32
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
86 DOROTHY KATE RICHMOND
1861 - 1935
Blue Wildflowers
Watercolour 27 x 23
Signed & dated 1925
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
87 STANLEY BERKELEY
1855 - 1909
Farrier Sgt. W. J. Hardham. No.7 Company (‘C’ Squadron) 4th Rough Riders - New Zealand Contingent Winning his Victoria Cross Near Naauwpoort, South Africa, on 28th January 1901.
London Gazette 4th October 1901.
Watercolour 46.5 x 36
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
Stanley Berkeley was an British painter favouring animal, sporting and historical military subjects. Born in London, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Grafton Galleries and the New Watercolour Society from 1878 until 1902. Many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo. Berkeley also depicted contemporary events and several were published as photogravures by Henry Graves including The Victory of Candahar, Charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, Atbara, and Omdurman.
Some of his most popular pictures were representations of dramatic events in the Boer War. He also provided illustrations for various books, magazines and newspapers, producing many works in watercolour and monochrome. In 1884, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers for his illustration work. Berkeley married landscape painter, Edith Berkeley and they lived at Surbiton Hill, Surrey, where he died on April 24, 1909.
88 JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965
Facades at Night
Tempera on board 75 x 62
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
89 JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965
Eden Terrace
Oil on board 40 x 50
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
90 JOHN
1886 - 1965
Rural Landscape
Watercolour 33 x 41
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
1877 - 1973
Tunny Boats, Concarneau
Oil on panel 39.5 x 31.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
91 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
WEEKS
92 WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER
1864 - 1929
Grey Riaer
Oil on canvas 45 x 67
Signed & inscribed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
93 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON 1877 - 1973
Canterbury Stream
Oil on canvas board 36 x 43
Signed
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
94 WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER 1864 - 1929
Wanganui Riaer
Oil on canvas 40 x 59
Signed & inscribed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
95 WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER 1864 - 1929
Lake Moana
Oil on canvas 45 x 67
Signed & inscribed
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
96 CHARLES BLOMFIELD 1848 - 1926
Waterfall
Oil on board 35 x 24
Signed & dated 1904
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
b. 1964
Dumont D’Uraille At French Pass, 28 January 1827
Oil on canvas 91.6 x 168
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002
ESTIMATE
$16,000 - 18,000
97 PETER JAMES SMITH
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 5,500
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 9,000
98 MICHAEL HIGHT
b. 1961
Parikawa
Oil on canvas 35.5 x 45.5
99 THEO SCHOON 1915 - 1985
Untitled 3 (The Eye), Woodcut on paper 50.8 x 38.4 Signed
100 JOHN ARROWSMITH
1790 - 1873
Map of the Colony of New Zealand - 1844
Lithograph print published 1843 63 x 50
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 1,500
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
101 JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR DUMONT D’URVILLE
1790 - 1842
Plan de la Baie Houa-Houa (Ile Ika-Na-Mawi)
Lithograph 29 x 40
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
1910 - 1995
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
102 PETER MCINTYRE
Sampans & Junks in Hong Kong Harbour
Watercolour 53 x 72
103 ARCHIBALD FRANK NICOLL
1886 - 1952
Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on canvas 90 x 70
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
104 JOHN HOLMWOOD
1910 - 1987
Still Life with Lemons Oil on board 51 x 60
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,500 - 5,500
105
106
1877 - 1932
Estuary Scene - double sided
Watercolour 28 x 38
Signed
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
1877 - 1932
The Red Slippers
Oil on board 60 x 49
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
JAMES FRASER SCOTT
JAMES FRASER SCOTT
107 ROWLAND FREDERICK HILDER OBE
British 1905 – 1993
Winter Landscape, circa 974
Watercolour 36 x 52
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
108
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT
British 1880 - 1969 Girl on the Crag Watercolour 19 x 22.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
PROVENANCE
Private Collection Auckland since 1995
Campbell & Franks (fine arts) Ltd, London, label attached verso
109 ROBERT JOHNSON
Australian 1890 - 1964
Old Boats, Berry’s Bay Oil on board 37 x 45
Signed
ESTIMATE
$9,000 - 12,000
110 JOOST CORNELISZ DROOCHSLOOT
Dutch 1586 - 1666
Village Scene
Oil on panel 25 x 71.5
Signed & dated 1647
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 20,000
111 DAVID COX JNR
British 1809 - 1885
The Haymakers Family
Watercolour 44.5 x 72.5
Signed & dated 1843
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
British 1844 - 1912
Logging in the New Forrest Oil on canvas 54 x 75
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
112 JOHN EMMS
113 SAVELY ABRAMOVICH SORINE
Russian 1878 - 1953
Untitled - Seated Girl
Pencil on paper on canvas 78 x 56
Signed & dated 1945
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
114 JEAN LOUIS FORAIN
French 1852 - 1931
Untitled
Watercolour 23 x 32
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
PROVENANCE LOTS 113 - 114
Collection of Sir Edward Beddington - Behrens 1897 - 1968 & his wife Princess Irena Obolensky
Private Collection, Auckland by descent
115 MARGARET OLROG STODDART
1865 - 1934
Diamond Harbour
Watercolour 25 x 35
Signed & dated 1919
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
116 DOUGLAS MACDIARMID
1861 - 1935
Via Appia Attica XII
Acrylic on paper 27 x 23
Signed & dated 1991
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
117 DICK FRIZZELL b. 1943
Still Life II
Unique monoprint 52.5 x 72.5
Signed & inscribed 30/1/1990
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
116
118 JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965
Peruaian Motif
Oil on board 40 x 32
Signed
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
Australian 1920 - 1999
Serpents - Three Heads & Snake, 1964
Pastel on paper 46.5 x 62
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
119 ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD
1819 - 1888
Southern Waterfall
Watercolour 64 x 48
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
121 FATU FEU’U b. 1946
The Festiaals
Oil on canvas 100 x 100
Signed, inscribed & dated 2011 verso
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
120 JOHN GULLY
124 CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING
1888 - 1982
Partington’s Mill
Watercolour 52 x 38
Signed & dated 1946
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
125 CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING
1888 - 1982
Mission House, Auckland
Watercolour 40 x 65
Signed & dated 1946
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
126 HELEN BROWN 1917 - 1986
Old Alton Street House
Watercolour 36 x 46
Signed & inscribed
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
122 JOHN GULLY 1819 - 1888
Birch Trees and Fern Trees
Pencil on paper 32 x 21
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
123 DENIS KNIGHT TURNER 1924 - 2011
Untitled (4)
Watercolour 57.5 x 37.7
Signed & dated 1992 ESTIMATE
$6,500 - 8,000
127 THOMAS ARTHUR MACORMACK 1883 - 1973
Karori
Watercolour 45 x 55
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
$1,000 - 1,500
1888 - 1982
Murdiho - Moroccan Boy
Watercolour 40 x 30
Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 1,500
128 PEGGY SPICER 1908 - 1984
Franklin Road, Freemans Bay
Watercolour 35 x 48
129 CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING
