COLLECTABLE ART
Auction 6:30pm
Thursday 22 August 2019
Lot 108
Olivia Spencer Bower
Lot 15
Judy Millar
COLLECTABLE ART
6:30pm Thursday 22 August
Viewing times
International Art Centre, 202 Parnell Road, Auckland
Friday 16 August 10:00am - 4:00pm
Saturday 17 August 10:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday 18 August 11:00am - 4:00pm
Monday 19 August 9:00am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 20 August 9:00am - 4:00pm
Wednesday 21 August 9:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday 22 August 9:00am - 4:00pm
Auction commences 6:30pm Thursday 22 August
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Front cover illustration: Lot 17 Paul Dibble
Back cover illustration: Lot 19 Michael Hight
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Lot 16
Dick Frizzell
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A record for a 30 x 30cm Waterfall
Highlights from $3.4million
RARE ART
Auction held 30 July
Consign Now 23 October auction
Charles F Goldie Memories, 1917 Realised $492,500
Colin McCahon Waterfall, 1964 Realised $92,490
Charles F Goldie Hori Pokai, 1925 Realised $280,130
Michael Smither St Francis & Wolf Realised $288,300 - Auction Record
Wu Guanzhong, Snow Mountain, 1988 Realised $468,400
Karl Maughan Sweetcorn, 1988 Realised $117,700 - Auction Record
Mina Arndt Mother & Child Realised $20,400
Pat Hanly Lion Rock, Piha, 1974 Realised $36,030
Ralph Hotere Black Window, 1987 Realised $144,150
Alred Sharpe Matakatia Bay, 1878 Realised $67,270
Don Binney Kereru, 1963 Realised $516,500
Charles Blomfield Lake Tarawera, 1878 Realised $57,050
Frances Hodgkins, Red Sails, 1906 Realised $114,100
Frances Hodgkins Still Life Realised $27,600
Michael Smither Portrait, 1977, Realised $32,600
Toss Woollaston Three Clouds, Realised $33,030
ENTRIES NOW INVITED
Wharekauri Tahuna, 1938
Oil on canvas 26.5 x 21.8cm
Realised $474,400 April 2019
CHARLES F GOLDIE
Featuring major works by Colin McCahon from the 1950s to the 1970s and drawing upon Auckland Art Gallery’s extensive collection, this exhibition considers McCahon’s sustained relationship with Auckland and the significance of the physical, spiritual and cultural landscape on his painting.
10 Aug 2019–27 J an 2020
Principal partner Colin McCahon May His light shine (Tau Cross)1978–79, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 1994. Courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
MARKET WATCH
Realised $8,408
Jane Evans was born in Nelson, 1946 and educated at Nelson College for Girls. She enrolled at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1965, and the following year travelled to England to attended London’s Waltham Forest Art College. Following a period of formal study she determined upon a program of self-education. This freedom of spirit from a young age resonates throughout a life time’s creation of vibrant, free-flowing works.
Evan’s innate understanding and use of colour saw her flower and figurative narratives hit a high spot in the buoyant international art market of the early to mid 1980s. Today, enthusiasm for her work is again being witnessed in the sale room.
After an initial diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in 1965, Evans was diagnosed with an ongoing condition that affected her for the rest of her life. Often literally painting through her pain, while adapting her painting methods and media accordingly, Evans stated: Suddenly there was life in front of me and I had to grab it with both hands. It was a compulsive thing for me to express the joys of life.
Evans moved to Christchurch in 1967, returning to Nelson in 1971 and the ongoing support of close friends and family. 1972 saw the artist painting the colourful
characters of Sydney’s King Cross and setting up a studio in Melbourne. In 1974 she travelled again to England where she spent three months commencing a series of works showing people visiting and viewing paintings in the London galleries and the lively exchanges at markets such as Portobello Road.
Returning home Evans purchased a cottage in Tasman Street which she renovated and lovingly established the garden which became a tremendous source of inspiration for her signature flower paintings. Of this time she said: the garden was an extension of my life. When I turned to watercolours I found myself in touch with this wonderful, loose spontaneous medium that was really exciting.
Passionate about the expressionist works of Matisse, Bonnard and Chagall, Evans said: I am drawn to the painters who express the joy in living. Her paintings resonated with the public and there were waiting lists for her work. She never allowed journalists to make mention of her illness but worked closely with John Coley who published her 1997 her biography.
In the 1997 New Year Honours, Evans was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to painting. She died peacefully in 2012 at the Nelson home which she shared with her partner David Furniss.
$5,500 - 7,500
Screenprint, edition 60/75, 52.9 x 50.8
Signed, inscribed & dated 1979
$2,500 - 3,500
1 NIGEL BROWN (b. 1949) Promises Promises Acrylic on board 37 x 44 Signed & dated 1979
2 PAT HANLY (1932 - 2004) Life Goes On
Pastel
Signed & dated 1989
$3,000 - 5,000
4
BILL
Singer Songwriter II
Screenprint 69 x 84
Signed, inscribed Singer Songwriter II & dated 2001
$4,000 - 6,000
3 DON BINNEY (1940 - 2012)
Antarctica
on paper 28.5 x 43
HAMMOND (b. 1947)
5 NIGEL BROWN (b. 1949)
Small Icon Fatherhood
Acrylic & polyester on board 36 x 23
Signed & dated 1986
$4,500 - 6,500
6 PAT HANLY (1932 - 2004)
Panama Woman
Lithograph, edition 4/38, 74 x 58
Signed, inscribed Panama Woman & dated 1987
$2,500 - 3,500
7 DON BINNEY (1940 - 2012)
Pacific Frigate Bird - From the Barry Lett Multiple Series Screenprint 55 x 45.5
$3,000 - 5,000
8
DICK FRIZZELL (b. 1943)
Sockeye (Red)
Screenprint, edition 38/50, 56 x 75
Signed & dated 24/2/78
$1,000 - 2,000
9 COLIN MCCAHON (1919 - 1987)
15 Drawings - December ‘51 to May ‘52
Lithographic leaves, published by the Hocken Library, 1976 26 x 20
Signed, inscribed For Charles Brasch from Colin McCahon 1952 on plate
$3,000 - 5,000
10 KARL MAUGHAN (b. 1964)
Ice Flower Oil on canvas 66 x 66
Signed & dated June 1992 verso
$4,000 - 6,000
EXHIBITED
Taejon Expo ‘93, South Korea
The New Zealand Pavilion
11 NIGEL BROWN (b. 1949)
Find Your Own Place Oil on canvas 95 x 65
Signed, inscribed You Have to Find Your Own Place In the World, Beyond the Narcistic Self & dated 2001
$7,000 - 10,000
Indication
Acrylic on canvas 51 x 51
Signed, inscribed & dated 2011
$3,000 - 5,000
Long Letter from Space Poem Series Dye and acrylic on canvas with crayon edges 200 x 90
Signed & dated 1978
$1,500 - 2,500
12 MERVYN WILLIAMS (b. 1940)
13 PHILIPA BLAIR NEE HUTCHINSON (b. 1945)
Signed & dated 1977
$2,000 - 4,000
14 PHILIPA BLAIR
NEE HUTCHINSON (b. 1945)
Space Poem
Dye and acrylic on canvas 330 x 90
Oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 60
Signed & dated 2002 verso
$4,000 - 6,000
PROVENANCE
International Art
Signed & dated 18/6/2011
$22,000 - 28,000
PROVENANCE
Gow Langsford Gallery
Gow Langsford Gallery label affixed verso
16 DICK FRIZZELL (b. 1943)
Yellow Oil on canvas 120 x 80
15 JUDY MILLAR (b. 1957)
Untitled Yellow
17
PAUL DIBBLE (b. 1943)
Who’s Afraid
Unique cast bronze, two pieces, 88 x 102 x 26
Signed, inscribed NZ & dated 2009 on base $22,000 - 28,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Palmerston North Purchased from Taylor Jensen Fine Arts, 2010
EXHIBITED
Sources, Te Manawa, Palmerston North 2011
The public Who’s Afraid sculpture was unveiled outside the Regent Theatre in Broadway, Palmerston North, 3 July 2011. The two contrasting pieces challenge each other, physically and metaphorically. The taller, the dancer, stands 3.5 metres eying the 3 metre tall tuatara.
Because it’s for the Regent Theatre it’s about drama, acting out emotions and feelings. I’ve called it ‘Who’s Afraid’, but I’m not too sure if she’s alarmed or trying to scare the tuatara. There is also a fair bit of joy in her and that’s because theatre is about all those emotions. Paul Dibble
Who’s Afraid by Paul Dibble, the 3.5 metre tall version, outside the Regent Theatre, Palmerston North
18 GENOVEVA FERNANDEZ (Argentinian b. 1963)
Estrategia De Las Apariencias
Oil on canvas 200 x 200
Signed, inscribed Estrategia De Las Apariencias & dated 2001 verso
$1,500 - 2,500
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Hoy En El Arte Galleria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002
Kopuku Island Block
Oil, ash & blackboard paint on canvas
120 x 120
Signed, inscribed Kopuku Island Block & dated 1996 verso
$4,000 - 6,000
19 MICHAEL HIGHT (b. 1961)
60.5 x 60.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1968 verso
$12,000 - 18,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection since 1968
20 MILAN MRKUSICH (1925 - 18)
Painting Dark Umber
Acrylic on canvas
21 GRACE WRIGHT (b. 1992)
Peaches are Sweeter When Eaten Upside Down
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100
Signed & dated 2015 verso
$3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE
Warwick Henderson Gallery label affixed verso
Signed, inscribed & dated 2000
Acrylic on canvas 104 x 104
Signed, inscribed Bloomer & dated 2006
$2,500 - 3,500
22 SARA HUGHES (b. 1971)
Runway, 2000
Oil on canvas 58 x 58
verso
$1,500 - 2,500
23 SYLVIA SIDDELL (1941 - 11)
Bitter Sweet Oil on canvas 50.5 x 40.5
- 1,200 24 MIRANDA PARKES (b. 1977) Bloomer
25 FREDERICK HUNDERTWASSER
(Austrian 1928 - 2000)
Conservation Week 1974, New Zealand
Offset lithograph with green foil insets, fine art poster print 59 x 42
Signed, inscribed Conservation Week & dated 1974 on plate
$800 - 1,200
26 ANDY LELEISI’UAO (b. 1969)
Choirs of Academia Part I
Acrylic on canvas 76.5 x 61
Signed, inscribed & dated 2013
$3,800 - 4,800
27
EION STEVENS (b. 1952)
Turning a Blind Eye Oil on board 36 x 55
Signed & dated 7/83 verso
$1,000 - 1,500
28 ROY GOOD (b. 1945)
Planetary Folklore II - Circle & Square Series
Acrylic on paper on board 116 x 63
Signed, inscribed & dated 1991
$3,000 - 5,000
RUDI GOPAS (1913 - 82)
Uncharted Region (3)
PVA on board 95 x 95
Signed & dated 1964
$3,000 - 4,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland since 1964
30
PHILIP CLAIRMONT (1949 - 84)
Black Crucifixion
Screenprint, edition 64/90, 80.5 x 53
Signed, inscribed Black Crucifixion & dated 1981
$2,000 - 3,000
NIGEL BROWN (b. 1949)
Study for Shattered Clouds
Watercolour 77 x 57
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
IAN KINGSTONE (b. 1942)
Patsy Cline and a Bottle of Wine
Oil on canvas 76 x 102
Signed & dated 2014
$800 - 1,200
33 DEAN PROUDFOOT
Ralph and Bill Make Light Work in a New Zealand Landscape Oil on canvas 121 x 152
Signed & dated 2007
$1,500 - 2,500
JACQUELINE FRASER (b. 1956)
Elizabeth Taylor: Really and Actually I
Don’t Give a Damn
Oilstick on fabric 30 x 30
Signed,inscribed Elizabeth Taylor: Really and Actually I Don’t Give a Damn & dated 2003
800 - 1,200
Girl at Window No 1
Line etching, edition of 50, 65 x 38
Signed $500 - 1,000
35 JOHN DRAWBRIDGE (1930 - 2005)
PAT HANLY (1932 - 2004)
Bride Groom
Hand coloured screenprint, edition 9/23, 50 x 71
Signed, inscribed Bride, Groom, Observer & dated 1991
$2,000 - 3,000
Spiral Series
Pencil & gouache on paper 41 x 25.5
Signed, inscribed Spiral Series & dated 1988
$800 - 1,200
$400 - 600 37 ROY
October 14th 1995
Watercolour 24 x 32
Signed & inscribed October 14th 1995 & dated 2013
38 MICHAEL GREAVES (b. 1976)
GOOD (b. 1945)
40 HYE RIM LEE (b. 1963)
Crowned Egg with Flying Bunnies
Digital print on PVC, edition 1/10, 220 x 100
Signed verso
$2,500 - 3,500
Digital print on PVC, edition 1/10, 220 x 100
Signed verso
$2,500 - 3,500
39 HYE RIM LEE (b. 1963)
Crowned Bunny with Flying Bunnies
41
RALPH HOTERE (1931 - 2013)
Aramoana
Lithograph, edition 9/30, 63 x 74
Signed, inscribed Aramoana & dated 1990
$3,000 - 4,000
42
DICK FRIZZELL (b. 1943)
Blue Hawaii
Screenprint, edition of 50, 70 x 100
Signed, inscribed Blue Hawaii & dated 2016
$1,000 - 2,000
43
GRAHAME SYDNEY (b. 1948)
Standing Model II
Lithograph edition 9/50, 55 x 38
Signed, inscribed Standing Model II & dated 1998
$1,200 - 1,800
44
NIGEL BROWN (b. 1949)
Bungalow Window
Gouache on paper 24 x 34.5
Signed, inscribed Bungalow Window, Evening I & dated 1991
$800 - 1,400
45
MERVYN WILLIAMS (b. 1940)
Lotus
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 64
Signed, inscribed Lotus & dated 1998 verso
$5,000 - 8,000
Koripi
Tar and oil on canvas, 183 x 143
$15,000 - 25,000
PROVENANCE
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Lot 60 Important Paintings and Contemporary Art, Webb’s, 28/11/2013
47 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI (b. 1950)
Poetry of Still Life on the Blue Chair
Oil and gold foil on canvas 48.5 x 65
Signed
Inscribed Poetry of Still Life on the Blue Chair & dated 2003 verso
$4,000 - 6,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
EXHIBITED
Szydlowski Wellington 2003, Duxton Hotel, International Art Centre, 2003
46 PETER ROBINSON (b. 1966)
47
Whakapapa of Water Oil on canvas 121 x 213
Signed & dated 2012
$5,000 - 8,000
49 JOHN BEVAN-FORD (1930 - 2005)
Taranaki, Nga Maunga ToaThe Mountain Warriors
Watercolour 24 x 50
Initialled
$800 - 1,200
50 HYE RIM LEE (b. 1963)
Dragon’s Tale, Black, 2010
Type C print mounted with perspex 50 x 50
Gow Langsford Gallery label affixed verso
$3,500 - 4,500
48 ROBYN KAHUKIWA (b. 1940)
51 ANS WESTRA (b. 1936)
James K. Baxter at Jerusalem
Gelatin silver print 35 x 29.5
$1,500 - 2,500
52 ROBIN MORRISON (1944 - 93)
Robin White at Harbour Cone, 1980
Cibachrome photograph 40 x 26
$2,000 - 3,000
53 JEFF THOMSON (b. 1957)
Aotearoa / New Zealand
Corrugated iron in three pieces 180 x 75
Signed & dated 2004
$4,000 - 6,000
54
MERVYN WILLIAMS (b. 1940)
Microcosm One
Acrylic on canvas 51 x 41.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002
$2,500 - 3,500
55 GEOFF WILLIAMS (b. 1966)
Eggs on Mantle
Acrylic on board 33 x 79
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
56 JACQUES & PIERRE BELLENGER
(French 1903 - 85 & 1909 - ?)
Cycles Favor Motos Poster, 1937
Vintage lithograph 108 x 159
Signed on plate
$800 - 1,200
57 BILL COLEMAN (Australian 1922 - 93)
Woman Oil on board 26.5 x 16
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
Pastel on paper 75 x 56
Signed & dated 2005
$1,500 - 2,500
58
58 DAVID BROMLEY (b. 1960)
Blue Nude
Acrylic on paper 112 x 75
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
59 JAN NIGRO (1920 - 2012)
Standing Nude with Masks
Signed
Beach
Watercolour & pencil on paper
45.5 x 49.5
Signed & dated 1967
$1,500 - 2,000
60 JAN NIGRO (1920 - 2012)
Summer Encounter Oil on canvas 78.3 x 92.5
$3,000 - 4,000
61 JAN NIGRO (1920 - 2012)
Play
62 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI (b. 1950)
Sunrise in the Magical Green River Valley Oil on canvas 65 x 90
Signed & dated 2002
$10,000 - 15,000
63 GARY FREEMANTLE (b. 1962)
Tyred
Acrylic on board 65 x 119
Signed, inscribed Tyred and dated 2005 verso
$1,000 - 2,000
64 LUISE FONG (b. 1964)
Untitled - Red Oil on canvas 69 x 84
Signed verso
$1,500 - 2,500
65 DON BINNEY (1940 - 2012)
A Cape for Father Damien II
Oil on board 118 x 62.5
Signed & dated 1993
$45,000 - 65,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
EXHBITED
Binney: Forty Years On, The Dowse, Lower Hutt 2003 - 2004
ILLUSTRATED
p. 60 Don Binney: Nga Manu/Nga MotuBirds/Islands, Damian Skinner, Auckland University Press 2003
Don Binney: Seven Paintings - A video recording directed by Roger Taberner, Auckland Art Gallery 2004
The DVD included with this lot
Painted after Binney's early 1990's sabbatical in Hawaii, A Cape for Father Damien II features the volcanic landform of Molokai with a depiction of Father Damien on the beach wearing his widebrimmed hat. In the sky above is a stylised image of a traditional feather cloak worn by Hawaiian chiefs. Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai (1840 -1889) was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who ministered for sixteen years to lepers quarantined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
In 2009 Father Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. The work features as a full colour plate in Damian Skinner's Don Binney: Nga Manu/Nga Motu - Birds/ Islands, Auckland University Press 2003. In Roger Taberner's documentary, Don Binney: Seven Paintings, the artist speaks about his seven favourite works. Binney stands alongside A Cape for Father Damien II speaking passionately of the work.
A Terrible Event over the Mallee(The Rooster that thought it was a Magpie).
From The Birds of Black Thursday Part 3 Oil on linen 99 x 119.4
Signed & dated 1997
$15,000 - 20,000
In 1998, a significant exhibition entitled The Birds of Black Thursday showcased ten powerful paintings from Ray Ching’s series of the same title. These works had been undertaken as a reflection on, and commemoration of the Black Thursday bushfires in the state of Victoria. A Terrible Event Over the Mallee belongs to the third part of this series. The devastation of these 1851 bushfires effected over 5 million hectares of land. It is on record that as the fires spread, birds and other wildlife were dropping from the trees in all directions. It is one such moment that we encounter
PROVENANCE
Private Collection
Purchased from Tryon Gallery, London, 1997
in this work. Ching has realised a scene of violent beauty, and there is a real potency to this depiction of a singular plummeting avian life. He has chosen to completely de-contextualise the subject from the surrounding chaotic action in favour of capturing a single moment. One imagines that if this were a film, we would be witnessing this scene in slow-motion. Wings fully spread and resplendent in colour, the work possesses a theatricality of almost-Renaissance proportions, and is striking to behold.
66 RAYMOND CHING (b. 1939)
67 RAYMOND CHING (b. 1939)
Red Tailed Black Cockatoos
Oil on linen 99 x 119.4
Signed & dated 1990
$14,000 - 18,000
Belonging to the same incendiary body of work as A Terrible Event Over the Mallee, this captivating painting on linen offers a useful starting point from which to consider Ray Ching’s distinctive handling of realism. Paintings from the early decades of the artist’s career, when much of his work served a primarily documentary function, belie a scientific precision and almost microscopic quality. Ching carried this incisiveness and painstaking attention to photographic realism into his work of later years: works such as Red Tailed Black Cockatoos. Here the cockatoos have been painted with that same beautiful clarity of detail and linear finesse. Interestingly,
PROVENANCE
Private Collection
Purchased from Tryon Gallery, London, 1996
through the manipulation of atmospheric conditions there has been a blurred, impressionistic lens applied to the scene. This affords a depth to the work, a challenging and poetic quality which facilitates our engagement with the painting on an even more profound, reflective level. Aesthetic considerations aside, this work also goes to the very roots of a message of ecological preservation. Ching celebrates and affirms the beauty and preciousness of avian wildlife. An appreciation of these works encourages us to value and preserve the lives and habitats of these creatures.
68 COLIN MCCAHON (1919 - 87)
Sketch for TEAL, 1953
Oil on board 52.6 x 66.7
Signed & dated 1953
$65,000 - 85,000
Provenance:
Private Collection, Auckland
Fine New Zealand and Foreign Paintings, Photography and Prints, Webb's 14/12/1998, Lot No. 54
REFERENCE
The Invention of New Zealand; a Nationalist Mythology in Art and Letters: c. 1930-c. 1970, Francis Pound 2010
Sketch for TEAL is McCahon's study for the 1953 International Air Race commissioned in 1952 by the national airline, Tasman Empire Airways Limited, to commemorate a forthcoming air race from London to Christchurch. TEAL, who no doubt had expected something more naturalistic, was not happy with the final painting, though they did honour the commission by paying the artist. After a long and ominous silence from the company, in August 1953 it was reluctantly announced that the painting would be displayed in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. As R N O'Reilly wrote to McCahon: Everyone is most relieved the thing has broken at last. The finished painting, along with four preliminary studies and Sketch for TEAL were exhibited as McCahon's entry to the 1953 group show. McCahon's friend, the writer John Summers wrote to congratulate McCahon, telling him that International Air Race dwarfed all else and was more startling and powerful than I'd expected. TEAL took possession of the painting in Auckland, and transferred it to Wellington, where it was put into storage. Finally the painting was sawn up, so the story goes, and turned into a packing case.
There is nothing in New Zealand landscape painting quite like Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed, or much in New Zealand art like the Italian Futurists' celebrations of technology and the machine: there are few triumphant emblems of an awesome modernity. Rather, there is a strong anti-technological strain, and the New Zealand regionalist tends to suppress or downplay any too emphatic signs of technological
modernity in the landscape. The steel viaduct of McCahon's On Building Bridges, 1952, is one of the few major exceptions. Even there, the triptych format, in that it recalls the same format of the medieval and Renaissance altarpiece, frames the land with a certain anti-modern, medievalising and Christian sacredness.
McCahon's International Air Race of 1953, commissioned by Tasman Empire Airways Limited, and later destroyed by its unhappy commissioners, might seem, with its racing jets, another important exception to the anti-technological rule of New Zealand landscape painting. However, it was provoked, in all probability, only by TEAL's special requirements. Significantly, the other aeroplanes which fly through McCahon's art, appear in a Christianised and so medievalised, context. There is one above the barbed wire behind the biblical Paul, in I Paul to You at Ngatimote, 1946, which, as a modernist machine of war, flying into the parabolic line-and-ball symbol of atomic technology, signifies technological modernity in its most negative aspect.
An aeroplane provides the window format of Flight From Egypt, 1980, A Christian allegory of the search for the Promised Land. Other aeroplanes are transubstantiated into a cross - a device borrowed from the great Russian abstractionist, Malevich, or a sign of the soul flying from the body at the moment of death, in the Jet Out Over Muriwai series of drawings. McCahon's aeroplanes, with the exception of the TEAL commission, are invariably turned into a Christian symbol. It is significant, too, that such celebrations as there are of technology and the machine in New Zealand art tend mostly to be made by painters infected by the modern in style - it is as though stylistic modernity and technological modernity are accepted as one and the same. International Air Race was a somewhat cubist picture, provincially mild though it is, and based on the still only proto-cubist works of Picasso and Braque, yet leaves the realism of the regional realist behind.
Text assistance from The Invention of New Zealand; a Nationalist Mythology in Art and Letters: c. 1930c. 1970, Francis Pound
Surface Tension
Mixed media on board 45 x 160
Signed & dated 2011 verso
$1,200 - 1,800
Joy of Performing II
Oil on canvas 28 x 30
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
69 SONJA DRAKE
70 PIERA MCARTHUR (b. 1929)
Acrylic on board 22.5 x 22
Signed $500 - 1,000
Oil on canvas 76 x 101
Signed & dated 1971
$6,000 - 9,000
Acrylic on paper 73 x 53
Signed & dated 1993
$800 - 1,500
73
HELEN BROWN (1917 - 86)
Taupo 1
71 ARTHUR DAGLEY (1919 - 98)
Church on the Hill
72 SIMON MCINTYRE (b. 1955)
Echo
On the Beach, Wellington
Watercolour 28 x 38
Signed & dated 1957
$2,500 - 3,500
Wood engraving
26 x 25 cm
Signed & inscribed
$500 - 800
Seven works by E Mervyn Taylor
74
E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
75
E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64) Elephants
76 E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
Cats
Colour linocut, edition of 20, 29 x 38.5
Signed & inscribed
$1,500 - 2,500
77 E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
Wood engraving, edition of 40, 11 x 8.5
Signed & inscribed
$800 - 1,200
78 E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
Petunia & Tom Linocut, edition of 55, 41 x 28
Signed & inscribed
$1,000 - 1,500
79 E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
Serenity Linocut, edition of 25, 36 x 21
Signed & inscribed
$1,000 - 1,500
80 E MERVYN TAYLOR (1906 - 64)
Snail
Wood engraving, edition of 30, 7 x 9
Signed & inscribed
$700 - 1,000
Tern
Mykonos Oil on board 22 x 34
Signed
$4,000 - 6,000
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
on board 35 x 53
Signed
$3,000.- 5,000
81 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005)
Menton on the Med Oil on board 47.5 x 56
82 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005)
83 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005) Cote D’Azur Oil
81
84 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005) Brixham, England Oil on board 37 x 59
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
85 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005) Moscow Nights Oil on board 30 x 42
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
86 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005)
The Swan, Wiltshire Oil on board 25 x 46
Signed
$4,500 - 6,500
87
MICHAEL SMITHER (b. 1939)
Still Life
Woodblock monoprint 55 x 38
Signed, dated 1964 & inscribed The ascending sun by clarity / Graces each morning thing / Out of the darkness bestowing / Praises in pools of light
$500 - 1,000
88
TOM MUTCH (b. 1951)
Future Totems
Wooden sculpture, four painted pieces, 97 x 74 x 30
$1,000 - 2,000
89
MICHAEL SMITHER (b. 1939)
Untitled
Screenprint 47.5 x 42.9
Signed, dated 1967 & inscribed 2/10/17/G
$500 - 1,000
90 JANE EVANS (1946 - 2012)
Beverley with Agapanthas
Gouache on paper 80 x 62
Signed & dated 1992
Inscribed Beverley with Agapanthas & dated 1992 verso
$6,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
91 GABRIELLE HOPE (1916 - 62)
The Letter - Geoff Fairburn
Watercolour 52 x 40
Signed
$800 - 1,200
92 GABRIELLE HOPE (1916 - 62)
The Nikau Trail
Watercolour 39 x 29
Signed & dated 1953
$600 - 800
93 GABRIELLE HOPE (1916 - 62)
Garden Study
Watercolour 55 x 42
$800 - 1,500
Three works from the Estate of Gabrielle Hope
Signed
$4,000 - 6,000
94 COLIN VERNON WHEELER (1919 - 2012)
Hampden Cottage Oil on board 76 x 73
95 LAURENCE WILLIAM WILSON (1850 - 1912)
Near the Acheron Passage, Dusky Sound
Watercolour 28.5 x 60
Signed & inscribed Near the Acheron Passage, Dusky Sound
$2,500 - 3,500
96 MARGARET OLROG STODDART (1865 - 1934)
Poppies and White Hydrangeas
Watercolour 24 x 34.5
Signed & dated 1903
$7,000 -10,000
PETER MCINTYRE (1910 - 95) North Island, Coastal Landscape Oil on board 45 x 61
Signed
$8,000 - 12,000
97
97
Signed
$7,000 - 10,000
98 PETER MCINTYRE (1910 - 95)
The Kestrel, Auckland
Watercolour 53 x 71.5
98
99 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON (1877 - 1973)
An October Morning, Concarneau, Brittany Oil on canvas board 37 x 44.5
Signed $6,000 - 8,000
100 DAVID BARKER (b. 1941)
Sea Captain’s House
Acrylic on board 38 x 51
Signed & dated 2003
2,000 - 3,000
Lake
Signed
$5,000 - 7,000
Arthur River, Fiordland Oil on canvas 59 x 89.5
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
101 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON (1877 - 1973)
Heron Oil on canvas 50 x 60.5
102 TIM WILSON (b. 1954)
Signed
Signed & dated 1975
800 - 1,200
103 SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON (1877 - 1973)
Canterbury Landscape Oil on canvas 37 x 45
$3,000 - 4,000
104 GASTON DE VEL (1924 - 2010) Moored Boats Oil on canvas 39.5 x 49.5
105 RATA
(1894 - 1969 )
Canterbury Fields Oil on canvas board 30 x 40
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
106 CECIL F
(1879 - 1954)
Near Lyttleton Oil on canvas 35 x 45
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
107 CECIL F
(1879 - 1954)
New Brighton Oil on canvas board 38 x 52
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
LOVELL SMITH
KELLY
KELLY
The Moncriefs at Holiday Home, Abel Tasman, National Park
Watercolour 27 x 38
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
During the 1930s Olivia Spencer Bower frequently stayed with the Moncrief family, prominent Nelson antique and art collectors, at their holiday home in Abel Tasman Park. This work is from one such visit dated around 1938.
Text from Tinakori Gallery label affixed verso
Otago Chapel
Watercolour 36 x 26.5
Signed & dated 1961
$1,000 - 2,000
108 OLIVIA SEPNCER BOWER (1905 - 82)
109 COLIN VENRON WHEELER (1919 - 2012)
110
JAMES COOK (1904 - 60)
An Old Barn
Watercolour 24 x 31
Signed
$800 - 1,200
111
WILLIAM JAMES REED (1908 - 96)
Red Roof
Mixed media on paper 46 x 53
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
EXHIBITED
William James Reed:
Works from the Estate Collection, International Art Centre, 20 - 30 March 2002
112 KEES HOSS (1916 - 2015)
Shaded Courtyard
Oil on card 11.5 x 17
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Amsterdam
113 MARGARET THOMPSON (b. 1924 working 1940s 50s)
Jungle Scene
Varnished watercolour 29.5 x 39.5
$800 - 1,200
114 COLIN LOVELL-SMITH
(1894 - 1961)
Vézelay Bourgogne Oil on canvas 34 x 42.5
Signed & dated 1950
$1,000 - 1,500
115 PETER BEADLE (b. 1933)
Paradise and Humblot Peaks (Knox, Chaos, Poseduim and Cosmos)
Dart River, Wakatipu Oil on board 40.5 x 76
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
116 A AUSTIN DEANS (1915 - 2011)
The Wool Shed, Morven Hills, Central Otago Watercolour 36 x 54
Signed & dated 1972
$3,000 - 5,000
114
115
117 DEAN BUCHANAN (b. 1952)
St Mary’s Bay from Birkenhead Oil on canvas 85.5 x 118
Signed & dated 1991
$1,500 - 2,500
118 MATT GAULDIE (b. 1976)
Bull Rider
Oil on canvas 45.5 x 45.5
Signed & dated 2012
$1,000 - 2,000
119 IVY GRACE FIFE (1905 - 76)
Rockpool
Watercolour 57 x 47
Signed
$500 - 1,000
120 GRANT WHIBLEY Toto
Oil on canvas 20 x 28
Signed, inscribed Toto & dated 2004 verso
$400 - 800
121 STANLEY PALMER (b. 1936) Tower
Bamboo etching, 13/60, 58 x 41
Signed, inscribed Tower & dated 1979
$800 - 1,200
122 MICHAEL SMITHER (b. 1939) Tom, 1967
Screenprint, edition of 20, 57 x 41
Signed
$500 - 1,000
Note: Letter to vendor from artist affixed verso
117
Road to the Sea Oil on board 29.5 x 34.5
Signed & dated 1940
$2,500 - 3,500
123 CEDRIC SAVAGE (1901 - 69)
124
125
124 CEDRIC SAVAGE (1901 - 69)
The Estuary, Wainui Stream Oil on board 54 x 64
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
125 CEDRIC SAVAGE (1901 - 69)
Coastal Heads with Steam Boat Oil on board 35.5 x 44.5
Signed & dated 1932 verso
$800 - 1,200
126 CEDRIC SAVAGE (1901 - 69)
Takaka, Summer Oil on board 33 x 49.5
Signed & dated 1940
$700 - 1,000
127
CEDRIC
(1901 - 69)
Lake Landscape Oil on canvas board 29 x 39
$600 - 1,000
128
(1901 - 69)
San Martin’s Bridge, Toledo Watercolour 28 x 38.8
$400 - 600
129
CEDRIC SAVAGE (1901 - 69)
Autumn, Takaka Watercolour 27.5 x 30.5
$600 - 1,000
SAVAGE
CEDRIC SAVAGE
126
127
128
129
Seven works by Cedric Savage
130 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE (1835 - 1913)
The Garden Palace, Sydney
Watercolour 24 x 41.5
$1,500 - 2,500
131 CHARLES GOLDIE (1870 - 1949)
A Good Joke
Chromolithograph print 37 x 28
Machine signed, inscribed & dated 1905
$1,000 - 2,000
132 ANNE RUSH (b. 1950)
Profusion of Orange Poppies
Mixed media on paper 53 x 73
Signed & dated 1987
$800 - 1,200
133 ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 87)
Jackie, 1964, from The Andy Warhol Collection
Framed poster 110 x 101
400 - 800
134 JOHN WEEKS (1888 - 1965)
Mediterranean Rooftops Oil on canvas 35 x 39.5
Weeks O’Connor stamp verso
$2,000 - 4,000
135 ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 87)
$400 - 600 134
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes from The Andy Warhol Collection
Framed poster 80 x 80
136
CHRISTINA CONRAD (b. 1942)
The Artist & Stone Carver Locked in Domesticity Oil on board 27 x 31
Signed
$400 - 600
137
JUSTIN BOROUGHS (b. 1952)
Whatipu Oil on board 45 x 100
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
138
CHRISTINA CONRAD (b. 1942)
Krishna’s Birthday Oil on Board 120 x 96
Signed & dated 1984
$1,000 - 3,000
139
GRAHAM SYDNEY (b. 1948)
Riverbank
Lithograph, edition 30/75, 52 x 82
Signed, inscribed & dated 1992
$1,000 - 1,500
140 FELIX KELLY (1916 - 94)
Drifter and Paddle Steamers, 1946
Lithograph, 46.5 x 73
Signed on plate
$500 - 1,000
Printed in England for The Banyard Press for School Prints Ltd
141 GAVIN CHILCOTT (b.1950)
David, Plywood, Templates Plus Self
Coloured pencil & watercolour on paper 57 x 77.5
Signed, inscribed David, Plywood, Templates Plus Self & Buckingham
St. Redfern & dated 12.4.89
$800 -1 ,200
142 MICHAEL SMITHER (b. 1939)
Bartok Wedding Dance
Screenprint, edition 14/45, 49 x 67
Signed, inscribed & dated 1980
$500 - 1,000
Screenprint 45 x 83
Signed & dated 25/2/72
$500 - 1,000
Signed, inscribed Playing with Props & dated 1978
$200 - 400
144 TOM FOLWELL Playing with Props Coloured pencil 31 x 42.5
144
141
143 MICHAEL SMITHER (b.1939) Rocks
145 MIKE ROWLAND (b. 1949) Peace Oil on canvas 185 x 150
$5,000 - 10,000
146 JOHN LOXTON (1903 - 69) Still Life
Oil on canvas board 95 x 72
Signed
$1,000 - 1,800
147 WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER (1864 - 1929)
Maori Girl
Watercolour 36 x 25.5
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
148 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE (1835 - 1913)
Lake Waikaremoana Watercolour 27 x 32
Signed
$4,000 - 6,000
149 CHARLES BLOMFIELD (1848 - 1926) Whanganui River Oil on board 25 x 45
Signed & dated 1903
$2,500 - 3,500
150 WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER (1864 - 1929)
Wairoa River Oil on canvas 44 x 64
Signed & inscribed
$600 - 1,000
151 JOHN PHILEMON BACKHOUSE (1845 - 1908)
Lake Taupo & Blue & Green Lakes, Rotorua Oil on card 13.5 x 13.5
$1,600 - 2,500
152 ALBERT ALDIS (1901 - 69)
Maori Pa on a River at Sunset, c. 1880 Oil on board 18 x 25.5
Signed
$800 - 1,200
153 AFTER GOTTFRIED LINDAUER
Heeni Hirini and Child Oil on canvas 75 x 60
$5,000 - 10,000
154 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN
A Maori and Infant - A pair
Albumen print 14.5 x 9.5
Inscribed A Maori and Infant and cabinet card 9.5 x 6.5
Inscribed New Zealand Native verso
$500 - 1,000
Whangaroa Harbour, Northland
Watercolour 24 x 58.5
Signed
$1,500 - 2,000
156 R E OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER
Mount Egmont (8,260 Ft), Taranaki. Egmont National Park. New Zealand & Mount Cook National Park
Colour process lithograph 101 x 63
$800 - 1,200
155 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE (1835 - 1913)
157
JUSTIN SUMMERTON (b. 1968)
Matiatia, Waiheke
Oil on canvas 55.5 x 76
Signed & dated 2019
$2,500 - 3,500
158 DICK FRIZZELL (b. 1943)
Mickey to Tiki (Reversed)
Screenprint, edition of 500, 70 x 100
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
$800 - 1,200
159
JUSTIN SUMMERTON (b. 1968)
Ascension, Hagley Park, Christchurch
Oil on canvas 76 x 101
Signed & dated 2018
$3,500 - 4,500
160 STEVE PEYROUX (b. 1966)
Dimming Intensity
Oil on board 49 x 64
Signed
$500 - 1,000
161
JANE CRISP (b. 1970)
The Space Within Acrylic on board 38 x 38
Signed & 2012
$800 - 1,200
162
DONNA DEMENTE (b. 1968)
Untitled
Acrylic on board 46 x 46
Signed
$400 - 600
163
NEAL PALMER (b. 1968)
Untitled, Tree
Metallic acrylic on MDF board 155 x 122
Signed & dated 2014 verso
$1,000 - 2,000
164
DONNA DEMENTE (b. 1968)
Helliotis
Acrylic on board 24 x 29
Signed
$400 - 600
165
WESTON FRIZZELL
Tututables
Screenprint, edition 107/110 39 x 92.5
Signed, inscribed Tututables & dated 2007
$500 - 1,000
166
167
JOHN A HARRINGTON BIRD (British 1846 - 1936)
Ladas
Oil on board 20.5 x 26
Signed & dated 1894
$500 - 1,000
ARTIST UNKNOWN
Portrait of Henry
Oil on wooden panel 20 x 16
Signed, inscribed George is King & dated 1851
verso
$800 - 1200
168
169
KRISHNA REDDY (Indian 1925 - 2018)
La Vague (The Wave)
Colour etching, edition of 65, 39.5 x 48.5
Signed
$800 - 1,200
NORMAN PRESCOTT-DAVIES (Scottish 1862 - 1915)
The Spirit of the White Petals
Oil on canvas 91 x 60
Signed & dated 1898
$4,000 - 6,000
170 PIETRO ANNIGONI
(Italian 1910 - 88)
Portrait of a Woman
Lithograph, edition 49/99 69 x 49
Signed
$600 - 1,000
171 JOHN PIPER
(British 1903 - 92)
Foliate Heads
Screenprint, edition 52/75, 56.5 x 75
Signed
$800 - 1,200
172 VICTOR VASARELY
(French - Hungarian 1906 - 97)
Great Responses, 1974
Silk-screenprint, edition of 540, Paper size 60 x 49.5
Image size 40 x 40
Signed
$800 - 1,200
173 SIDNEY NOLAN
(Australian 1917 - 1992)
Skull with Crosses, 1966
Screenprint, edition 52/70 60 x 46
Signed
$300 - 500
172
174
PETER BEADLE (b. 1933)
Waterfall, Doubtful Sound, Fiordland Oil on board 90 x 120
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
175 JONATHAN WHITE (b. 1939)
From Sandbrock Bluff to Awarua Point, South Westland Oil on canvas 48.5 x 66.5
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
176 JONATHAN WHITE (b. 1939)
Hall River, South Westland Oil on canvas 49 x 66.5
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
177
PETER WALLERS (b. 1953)
Crossing the Railway, Litchfield, Putaruru Oil and acrylic on board 80 x 149
Signed & dated 2011
$2,000 - 4,000
178 JONATHAN WHITE (b. 1939)
Pororari River Westland Oil on canvas 66 x 86
Signed
$2,500 - 3,500
179
PETER BEADLE (b. 1933)
Stream Okarito, West Coast Bush Oil on canvas board 29 x 39
Signed
$800 - 1,200
174
182 ROY J DICKISON (1923 - 2012)
Central Otago Scene Oil on canvas 35 x 45
Signed & dated 1942
$800 - 1,200
183 JOHN LOXTON (1903 - 69)
Thames Backwater Oil on canvas board 34 x 44
Signed
$500 - 1,000
184 JOS KIVITS (b. 1945)
Still Life with Books, Glasses & Pipe Oil on board 50 x 60
Signed
$1,000 - 3,000
185 ALFRED ERNEST BAXTER (1878 - 1936)
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Watercolour 30 x 41.5
Signed
$1,750 - 2,250
186 JAMES PEEL (British 1811 - 1906)
Moel Siabod, North Wales Oil on canvas 45 x 76
Signed
$500 - 1,000
187 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER (1924 - 2011)
Portrait of Peta (Amplice) Oil on board 59 x 45.5
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
188 TOM ESPLIN (1915 - 2005)
Venetian Memories
Watercolour 41.5 x 30
Signed
$800 - 1,200
189
RUSSELL JACKSON (b. 1947)
One Tree Hill - Pheasant
Oil and enamel on board 64 x 74
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
190 DICK FRIZZELL (b. 1943)
Old Boots
Screenprint, edition of 300., 45 x 58
Signed, inscribed & dated 2011
$500 - 800
191
RUSSELL JACKSON (b. 1947)
Stony Batter, Waiheke Island
Acrylic on paper 28 x 28
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
$400 - 600
192
RICHARD SMITH
Accidental Sculptures, Taranaki Coast
Acrylic and polyester on canvas 71 x 165
Signed & dated 2010
$1,000 - 2,000
193
RICHARD SMITH
Roadside Boxes
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 86
Signed & dated 2010
$1,000 - 2,000
194
RICHARD SMITH
King Country Homestead
Acrylic on canvas 49 x 59.5
Signed & dated 2006
$1,000 - 1,500
195
RICHARD SMITH
Dry Boots, Waihohonu Hut Ruapehu
Acrylic & polyester on canvas 51 x 76
Signed & dated 2010
$1,000 - 1,500
196
RICHARD SMITH
Steamed up Cupola Hutt, Nelson Lakes.
Acrylic on board 61 x 41.5
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
197
RICHARD SMITH
Instruction Board, Lake Tarawera
Acrylic on canvas 61 x 91
Signed & dated 2007
$1,000 - 1,500
Otaha Oil on linen 65 x 102
Signed, inscribed & dated 1994 verso
$800 - 1,500
198 SCOTT MCFARLANE (b. 1966)
204
199 IDA EISE (1894 - 1978)
Roses Still Life Oil on board 44 x 34
Signed & dated 1970
$700 - 1,000
200 DALENE MEIRING (b. 1965)
Bouquet
Acrylic on canvas 76 x 76
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
201 ALAN WATERS
Origins of the Sea Watercolour 55 x 46
Signed
$500 - 1,000
202 ALAN WATERS
The Swing Watercolour 42 x 58
Signed
$500 - 1,000
203 TONY CRIB
Albino Whale Oil on canvas 75 x 100
Signed
$800 - 1,200
204 ANNIE BAIRD (1932 - 99)
Woman in Red Watercolour 66 x 53
Signed
$400 - 600
205 ANNIE BAIRD (1932 - 99)
Greta’s Garden Oil on board 89 x 59
Signed & dated 1986
$400 - 600
206 TIM WILSON (b. 1954)
Still Water, South Island Oil on canvas board 29 x 39
Signed
$800 - 1,200
207 PEGGY SPICER (1908 - 84)
Hotel in Thames
Watercolour 28 x 35.5
Signed
$500 - 1,000
208 PEGGY SPICER (1908 - 84)
Coastal Town with Inlet
Watercolour 38 x 53
Signed
$500 - 1,000
209 PEGGY SPICER (1908 - 84)
River Landscape
Watercolour 35 x 53
Signed
$500 - 1,000
210
PEGGY SPICER (1908 - 84)
Waiwera, North Island
Watercolour 36.5 x 55
Signed
$500 - 1,000
211 TOM BURNETT (b. 1958)
House with Palms
Screenprint, edition 40/130, 57 x 81
Signed & dated 1987
$800 - 1,200
212
JENNY DOLEZEL (b. 1966)
The Game of Love
Screenprint, edition 1/36, 56 x 74.5
Signed, inscribed The Game of Love & dated 1989
$800 - 1,200
213 ROBERT ELLIS (b. 1929)
Motuvaluvalu
Lithograph, edition 4/13, 91 x 58
Signed & inscribed
$800 - 1,200
214 TOM MUTCH (b. 1951)
Progress the dream
Screenprint, edition of 35 50 x 44
Signed & dated 1985
$300 - 500
215 BARBARA BLAKEMORE-FOWLER (1921 - 2004)
Sea Shore
Watercolour 33 x 48
Signed
$400 - 600
216 ELIZABETH PULMAN (1836 - 1900)
A Tattooed Chief, Teretimana Terurapoutu
Silver gelatin print 24.3 x 18.5
Inscribed New Zealand, A Tattoed Chief
800 - 1,200
217 TOM MUTCH (b. 1951) Chinese Circus
Screenprint, edition of 27, 59 x 46
Signed & dated 1985
$300 - 500
218 TOM BURNETT (b.1958) Island Bay Screenprint, edition of 90, 40 x 39
Signed & dated 1985
$300 - 500
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PVA on board 149 x 119cm
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Index
ALDIS A 152
ANNIGONI P ...................................170
BACKHOUSE J P 151
BAIRD A .................................204, 205
BAKER W G 147, 150
BARKER D ...................................... 100
BAXTER A E 185
BEADLE P......................... 115, 174, 179
BELLENGER J & P 56
BEVAN-FORD J ............................... 49
BINNEY D 3, 7, 65
BLAIR NEE H P ........................... 13, 14
BLAKEMORE-FOWLER B 215
BLOMFIELD C 149
BOROUGHS J.................................. 137
BROMLEY D 58
BROWN H ....................................... 73
BROWN N 1, 5, 11, 31, 44
BUCHANAN D................................. 117
BURNETT T 218, 211
CHILCOTT G ................................... 141
CHING R 66, 67
CLAIRMONT P ................................. 30
COLEMAN B 57
CONRAD C .............................. 136, 138
COOK J 110
CRIB T ............................................ 203
CRISP J 161
DAGLEY A ......................................... 71
DE VEL G 104
DEANS A A ...................................... 116
DEMENTE D 162, 164
DIBBLE P ........................................... 17
DICKISON R J 182
DOLEZEL J ......................................212
DRAKE S 69
DRAWBRIDGE J 35
EISE I .............................................. 199
ELLIS R 213
ESPLIN T ....76, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 188
EVANS J 90
FERNANDEZ G ................................ 18
FIFE I G 114
FOLWELL T.................................... 144
FONG L 64
FRASER J ......................................... 34
FREEMANTLE G 63
FRIZZELL D ............ 8, 16, 42, 158, 190
FRIZZELL W 165
GAULDIE M 118
GOLDIE C F .................................... 131 GOOD R 28, 37
GOPAS R ........................................... 29
GREAVES M 38
HAMMOND B .................................... 4
HANLY P 2, 6, 36
HARRINGTON BIRD J A............... 166
HIGHT M 19
HOPE G ...................................... 92, 93 HOS K 112
HOTERE R.........................................41
HOYTE J B C 130, 148, 155
HUGHES S........................................ 22
HUNDERTWASSER F 25
HOPE G .............................................91
JACKSON R 189, 191
KAHUKIWA R .................................. 48
KELLY F 140
KELLY C F ...............................106, 107
KINGSTONE I 32
KIVITS J ......................................... 184
KNIGHT T D 187
LEE O R .......................................... 180
LEE H R 39, 40, 50
LEE O R 181
LELEISI’UAO A ................................ 26
LINDAUER G AFTER 153
LOVELL-SMITH C .......................... 114
LOVELL-SMITH R 105
LOXTON J .............................. 146, 183
MAUGHAN K 11
MCARTHUR P .................................. 70
MCCAHON C 9, 68
MCFARLANE S .............................. 198
MCINTYRE P 97, 98
MCINTYRE S .................................... 72
MEIRING D 200
MILLAR J .......................................... 15
MORRISON R 52
MRKUSICH M .................................. 20
MUTCH T 88, 214, 217
NIGRO J ............................... 59, 60, 61
NOLAN S 173
OWEN R E ......................................156
PALMER N 163
PALMER S ....................................... 121
PARKES M ........................................ 24
PEEL J 186
PEYROUX S .................................... 160
PIPER J 171
PRESCOTT-DAVIES N .................. 169
PROUDFOOT D 33
PULMAN E ......................................216
REDDY K 168
REED W J ........................................ 111
ROBINSON P 46
ROWLAND M ..................................145
RUSH A 132
SAVAGE C................ 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129
SIDDELL S........................................ 23
SMITH R 192
SMITH R 193, 194, 195, 196, 197
SMITHER M ........ 87, 89, 122, 142, 143
SPENCER B O 108
SPICER P ............... 207, 208, 209, 210
STEVENS E 27
STODDART M ................................. 96
SUMMERTON J 157, 159
SYDNEY G ................................ 43, 139
SYSZYDLOWSKI H 47, 62
TAYLOR E M . 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 78, 80
THOMPSON S L 99, 101, 103
THOMPSON M ................................ 113
THOMSON J 53
UNKNOWN ARTIST ....................... 167
UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER 154
VASARELY V ................................... 172
WALLERS P 172
WARHOL A ............................. 133, 135 WATERS A 201, 202
WEEKS J 134
WESTRA A ......................................... 51
WHEELER C V 94, 109
WHIBLEY G ................................... 120
WHITE J 175, 176, 178
WILLIAMS M ..............................12, 54
WILLIAMS G 55
WILLIAMS M ................................... 45
WILSON L W 95
WILSON T 102, 206
WRIGHT G ........................................21
Absentee Bid Form - COLLECTABLE ART
6:30pm Thursday 22 August
I instruct International Art Centre to bid on my behalf for the following lots up to the prices indicated below. I understand my bids are to be executed at the lowest attainable price level. All bids are subject to Conditions of Sale printed in this catalogue.
REGISTRATION NUMBER
NAME
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE
Signature ........................................................................................... / / 2019
International Art Centre offers this service to clients unable to attend sale and is not responsible for error or failure to execute bids.
Fax +64 9 307 3421 or post to PO Box 37344 Parnell, Auckland 1151 before 3pm day of sale
Alternatively, register then bid online www.fineartauction.co.nz
202 Parnell Road, Auckland, New Zealand Tel + 64 9 379 4010 Fax 09 307 3421 email info@internationalartcentre.co.nz www.fineartauction.co.nz
ARTIST NAME
Andy Leleisi’uao
Conditions of Sale and A Guide to Buyers
The highest bidder shall be the buyer. In the event of any dispute as to the bidding in respect of any lot, that lot may be offered again at the discretion of the auctioneer whose decision shall be absolute and final.
The auctioneer has the right -
(i) to refuse any bid;
(ii) to advance the bidding at his absolute discretion;
(iii) to place a reserve on any lot;
(iv) to place a bid or bids on behalf of the seller;
(v) to withdraw any lot from sale;
(vi) to require a successful bidder to pay forthwith the whole or any part of the purchase price.
The auctioneer acts as the agent of the seller and neither he nor the seller shall be responsible for any defects or faults in any lot or for any errors of description or for genuineness or authenticity of any lot and no compensation shall be paid in respect of same.
From the time of lot being sold, such lot will be the responsibility of the buyer.
Successful bidders are required to pay for purchases immediately on completion of sale unless otherwise arranged.
All intending buyers are required to register for a bidding number prior to auction commencing. Subscribers can use their permanent bidding number. We reserve the right to ask for identification if you are a first time client of International Art Centre.
Each lot shall be paid for and removed at the buyers expense by no later than 5:00pm Monday 26 August 2019 unless otherwise arranged failing which the auctioneer and/or the seller shall have the right to forfeit any deposit paid by the buyer and to resell the lot either by public or private sale and any deficiency on costs of resale shall be borne by the defaulting buyer.
No lot may be collected whilst auction is in progress. Payment can also not be made until completion of auction.
SUBJECT BIDS
When the auctioneer declares a lot ‘subject’ this means the bid is below the set reserve and is subject to vendor accepting, rejecting or negotiating the bid. International Art Centre will endeavour to make contact with the vendor immediately after sale or the following day. If the bid is accepted, the highest bidder is obligated to make purchase.
ESTIMATES
Estimates are provided for each entry and act as a guide only. They are prepared well in advance of sale and are subject to revision at any time. Estimates are based on hammer price and do not include buyers premium.
ABSENTEE BIDS
Absentee bidding arranged - please refer to absentee bidding in back of catalogue Fax to (09) 307 3421 or post to PO Box 37 344 Parnell before 3pm day of sale. Please do not be offended if a member of our staff ask for your credit card details as security.
Absentee bids can also be left via our website to registered members. Our website www.fineartauction.co.nz acts as a useful auxiliary to the catalogue but we recommend inspection or a condition report prior to leaving a bid. Our staff will gladly supply you with a condition report on any lot.
TELEPHONE BIDS
Telephone bidding available to subscribers and registered bidders. There is no charge for this service.
PAYMENT
OPTIONS
Eftpos: Available for transactions depending on your daily limit.
Bank deposits: Bank instructions on invoice if paying by direct debit.
Quote the Lot number(s) purchased and Surname as reference.
Cheques: Under $10,000 accepted by known clients of International Art Centre or at our discretion. Make cheque payable to ‘International Art Centre’. International Art Centre reserves the right to release goods once cheque proceeds have been cleared. For payments above $10,000 please make electronic transfer.
Credit cards: Visa and Mastercard accepted - 2% surcharge.
PROTECTED OBJECTS ACT
Art objects over 50 years old made by an artist or maker born in or related to New Zealand may be protected New Zealand objects, and therefore require permission from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in order to be exported. Applications for permission to export can be made at https://mch.govt.nz/ nz-identity-heritage/protected-objects/exporting
FREIGHT & PACKING
International Art Centre arrange door to door delivery both nationally and internationally. Please arrange insurance on your items prior to them leaving our premises.
OTHER ENQUIRIES
Should you have any questions relating to the sale or if we can be of any other assistance please contact us during business hours on (09) 379 4010, Toll Free 0800 800 322 or email info@internationalartcentre.co.nz
BUYERS PREMIUM
17.5% Buyers premium plus GST on premium applies to all lots. (Total buyers premium is 20.12% including GST)
Lot 109
Colin Vernon Wheeler
Lot 21
Grace Wright
