19 – 26 August
Collectable
MOFFITT
Human Condition Series No. 1, Ballet No. 3
Collectable 19 – 26 August
A Timed Online Auction
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November 25th
Illustrated: Michael Smither, Composition - Railway, 1967 Sold Important & Rare Art
$258,268
1
PAT HANLY
Doing It
Screenprint, edition 22/30 63 x 53
Signed, inscribed & dated 87
$2,000 - 4,000
2
PAT HANLY
Paradise Bird Escapes Bather
Screenprint, edition Artist Proof 3 51 x 48.5
Signed lower right & dated 77
$2,500 - 4,500
3
PAT HANLY
Winter’s Day Rain
Watercolour & pastel on paper 51 x 51
Signed, inscribed Winter’s Day Rain & dated 1974
$12,000 - 14,000
4
Egmont and Cloud
Screenprint, edition 2/85/77-148 30 x 31
Initialled & editioned
$500 - 1,000
MICHAEL SMITHER
5
STAR GOSSAGE
Kauri Kaiatiaki, 2016
Limited edition digital print on 310gsm Ilford
Galerie Smooth Cotton Archival Paper, edition of 30, 52.5 x 37
$1,000 - 2,000
6
ROBIN WHITE
Sam’s Place, Bottle Creek
Screenprint, Artist’s proof 2/2 53 x 35
Signed, inscribed & dated August ‘71
$4,000 - 6,000
7
GRETCHEN ALBRECHT
Drop
Lithograph, edition 14/30 60 x 80
Signed, inscribed & dated 98
$4,000 - 6,000
8
ROBERT ELLIS
Maungawhau, Mt Eden
Mixed media on paper 56 x 37
Signed, title inscribed & dated 2000 lower right
$2,000 - 3,000
PAUL DIBBLE
God’s Own
Bronze, edition of 2 160 x 70
$90,000 - 120,000
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
KARL MAUGHAN
Maungati
Oil on canvas 120 x 120
Signed & dated 2022 verso
$25,000 - 35,000
BRONWYNNE CORNISH
Standing Figure - Dryad
Glazed ceramic 33 x 10.5
Signed & dated 2015
$1,500 - 2,500
BRONWYNNE CORNISH
Standing Figure - Hanuman
Glazed ceramic 33.5 x 10.5
Signed & dated 2017
$1,500 - 2,500
PHILIP TRUSTTUM
Untitled Garden Painting
Oil on board 24 x 20
$1,000 - 2,000
TREVOR MOFFITT
Human Condition Series No. 1, Ballet No. 3
Oil on board 50 x 38.5
Signed & dated 94 upper right; titled inscribed verso
$7,000 - 10,000
15 HANNAH KIDD
Chook
Corrugated iron 45 x 50
$2,000 - 4,000
16
PHILIP CLAIRMONT
Study for Sofa Chair, c. 1978
Pastel and ink on paper 44 x 30
Clairmont Estate Certifcate of Authenticity label signed by the artist’s son Orlando Clairmont affixed verso
$3,000 - 5,000
17
REUBEN PATERSON
Glitter Wallflower - Yellow
Glitter, polyurethane resin and cyanoacrylate
adhesives, edition of 15 69 x 15
$3,000 - 4,000
18
DON BINNEY
Manunui, Haitutu II
Screenprint on Italian Fabriano 300gsm archival art paper, edition 16/80 97.5 x 65
Hand numbered, titled and signed by Philippa Binney, wife of the late artist on behalf of the Binney Estate.
$14,000 - 18,000
19
FATU FEU’U
Pacific Concern
Acrylic on stretched canvas 101.5 x 152
Signed & dated ‘24
$8,000 - 12,000
FATU FEU’U
Song of the Southern Ocean
Mixed media on stretched canvas 133.5 x 172
Signed & dated ‘23
$10,000 - 15,000
21
PAULINE YEARBURY
Whiro
Oil on board 106 x 44
Signed lower right
$7,000 - 10,000
22
PAULINE & JAMES YEARBURY
Hine-Takurua (Winter Girl)
Incised Wood Panel 79.5 x 45.5
Signed lower right
$4,000 - 8,000
23
PAULINE & JAMES YEARBURY
Hine-Ngahura (Autumn Girl)
Incised Wood Panel 79.5 x 45.5
Signed lower right
$4,000 - 8,000
24
LOIS MCIVOR
Blue Skys II
Oil on canvas 19 x 40
Signed & dated 98 lower right; Signed, titled & dated 1998 verso
$800 - 1,200
25
JASON GREIG
Monday 6th May, Sarah & I in my Room
Charcoal and graphite on paper 34 x 22.5
Sigmed, inscribed. dated 1985
$500 - 1,000
26
JASON GREIG
Against His Nature
Charcoal & conte on paper 27.5 x 19.5
Signed & dated 2012 lower left; title inscribed lower centre
$500 - 1,000
27
DAMIEN HIRST
Wu Zetian from The Empresses Series
Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite and screen printed with glitter, edtion
1437/2853 100 x 100
Signed & numbered on HENI label affixed verso
$4,000 - 6,000
ROBYN KAHUKIWA
Tāngata Whenua Installation Banner
Acrylic fabric banner 196.5 x 87
Signed in plate lower right
$800 - 1,600
29
ROBYN KAHUKIWA
Wahine Ki te Taha
Handcoloured silkscreen print, edition 86/200 47 x 32
Signed, inscribed & editioned
$600 - 1,200
30
LINDA HOLLOWAY
Peregrinations
Ink, Oil, Charcoal, Flashe, Pigments, Resin on wood 120 x 180
Signed & dated 2013 verso
$2,000 - 5,000
31
MICHAEL SMITHER
Opoutere Harbour Oil on vinyl banner 180 x 92
Signed and dated 2000 verso
$10,000 - 15,000
Signed & dated 1985
$800 - 1,600
PHILIPPA BLAIR Tiger
Acrylic on unstretched canvas 178 x 140
33
NEIL DRIVER
Shells on Pewter Plate
Acrylic on board 36 x 37.5
Signed lower right; inscribed, signed & dated 2013 verso
$2,000 - 4,000
34
JOHN REYNOLDS
This Is How Hours Point II
Lithograph, edition 13/20 15 x 40
Signed, inscribed & dated 2001
$400 - 600
35 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
Golden Farmer of the White Bird
Oil and gold leaf on canvas 40 x 28.5
Signed; Signed, inscribed & dated 1995 verso
$2,500 - 3,500
Fairburn’s Cottage, Spring
Oil on board 59 x 50
Signed & dated 64 lower left
$1,500 - 3,500
37
Fenonga Kia Koe
Lithograph, edition P/P 76 x 56
Title inscribed, signed & dated 2002
$1,500 - 2,500
MICHAEL SMITHER
JOHN PULE
38
Still Life with Flowers
Gouache on paper 63 x 101
Signed & dated ‘86 lower right
$3,000 - 6,000
JANE EVANS
41
TOM ESPLIN Procession in Procida Oil on board 38 x 27.5
Signed lower left
$3,000 - 5,000
42
TOM ESPLIN Rue St Martin, Paris Oil on board 37 x 27
Signed
$3,000 - 5,000
TOM ESPLIN
Roque Brune Sur Argnes
Oil on board 20 x 31
Signed lower left
$3,000 - 5,000
TOM ESPLIN
Fishing Port
Oil on board 32 x 54.5
Signed lower right
$3,000 - 5,000
Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire
Oil on board 54.5 x 70
Signed & dated 1973
$10,000 - 15,000
FELIX KELLY
45
HYE RIM LEE
“Lips” Mini
C-type photograph, edition 1 45 x 45
Signed, inscribed & dated 2007 verso
$1,500 - 2,500
STEVE HARRIS
Still Life with 14th Century Dish
Acrylic on canvas 54.5 x 85
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
46
JUSTIN BOROUGHS
Boatshed Near Porirua, Pauatahanui
Oil on board 42 x 71.5
Signed
$5,000 - 8,000
47
NICKY FOREMAN
Landmarks I
Mixed media on board 100 x 100
Signed & dated 2001
$1,500 - 2,500
SALLY BURTON
Behind the Sky, 2000
Acrylic on canvas 134.5 x 110.5
Signed
$2,000 - 3,000
49
Screenprint, edition 46/80 79 x 60.5
Title inscribed, signed & dated 2005
$1,000 - 2,000
50
Old School
Screenprint, edition 31/80 79 x 59
Title inscribed, signed & dated 2005
$1,000 - 2,000
DICK FRIZZELL
DICK FRIZZELL
Blue Tiki
Creatures Of Havoc
Lithograph, edition 12/40 17 x 46
Signed, inscribed & dated 1990
$600 - 1,200
JENNY DOLEZEL
52
PARATENE MATCHITT
No 2 of X Guitar Series
Screenprint , edition 26/50 120 x 80
Signed & dated 4/2021
$3,000 - 5,000
53
PARATENE MATCHITT
No 6 of X Guitar Series
Screenprint , edition 26/50 120 x 80
Signed & dated 5/2021
$3,000 - 5,000
PARATENE MATCHITT
No 5 of X Guitar Series
Screenprint , edition 26/50 120 x 80
Signed & dated 4/2021
$3,000 - 5,000
55
PARATENE MATCHITT
Te Kooti Wahawaha
Screenprint, edition of 50 50 x 67.5
Signed and dated 1967 in plate, embossed
$1,000 - 1,500
56
MICHAEL SMITHER
Opera Singer
Graphite on paper 29 x 19
Signed & dated ‘04
$400 - 800
57
BEARBRICK
Andy Warhol x Marilyn
Monroe #2 1000%
100% plastic 70 x 35
Includes original packing box
$1,000 - 2,000
58
BEARBRICK
Andy Warhol x Jean-michel
Basquiat #4 1000%
100% plastic 70 x 35
Includes original packing box
$1,000 - 2,000
59
BANKSY
Cut and Run Exhibition Poster, Glasgow, 2003
Original Exhibiton Poster (framed) 59 x 41
$500 - 1,000
60
BANKSY
Cut and Run Exhibition Poster, Glasgow, 2003
Original Exhibiton Poster (framed) 58 x 41
$500 - 1,000
61
Woman with a Cubist Still Life
Tempera on paper 46 x 30
Signed
$5,000 - 7,500
BÉLA KÁDÁR
63
GAVIN CHILCOTT
Heart Pot
Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper 28.5 x 39.5
Signed, titled & dated 1988 lower centre left
$400 - 600
62
JAMES ROSS
The City at Night (Dark Dreams)
Oil on two panels 70 x 50
Signed, inscribed & dated May, June 87 verso
$1,000 - 1,500
64
GAVIN CHILCOTT
Untitled - Stars
Gouache on paper 11 x 45
Signed & dated 1990 lower left
$400 - 600
MAX GIMBLETT & CASSANDRA GAISFORD
MAUI 2008
Sumi ink / Japanese Handmade Paper 50 x 92
Signed & dated 2008
$3,000 - 5,000
66
GRAHAME SYDNEY
Myself Looking Back
Lithograph 76 x 56
Titled inscribed, signed & dated
$1,000 - 2,000
65
67 PATRICK HAYMAN
Swimmers by the Shore
Oil and ink on paper 25.5 x 35.5
Title inscribed & dated 1965 verso
$2,000 - 3,000
68
EMILY VALENTINE
Dog Bird
Feather & mixed media sculpture 8.5 x 17
Signed & dated 2015 on underside
$200 - 400
69
MARK OLSEN
Lilli - Jellybean
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100
Signed lower left; title inscribed & dated 2009 verso
$1,500 - 2,500
70
MARK OLSEN
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100
Signed lower right; dated 2010 verso
$1,500 - 2,500
72
Weyba Forest
Oil on board 33.5 x 46.5
Signed & dated 2003
$1,500 - 2,500
71
ALAN PEARSON Matera, Italy
Oil on canvas 40 x 50
Signed & dated 2001
$1,500 - 2,500
73
ALAN PEARSON Renewal
Mixed media on Xerox photocopy 38 x 24
$700 - 1,400
ALAN PEARSON
74
PIERA MCARTHUR
Small Red Musicians
Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
75
DON DRIVER
Untitled Colour lithograph, edition 4/20 24.5 x 15.5
Signed, editioned & dated 1989
$200 - 300
76
PETER HACKETT
Honeymooners Bed XXI
Impasto oil on canvas 120 x 165
Signed
$14,000 - 18,000
78
CRUZ JIMENEZ
Reflections Of You...
Oil on linen 150 x 119.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 2013
$3,000 - 6,000
77
Oil on wood panel 120 x 150
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012 verso
$3,000 - 6,000
CRUZ JIMENEZ Rosebush
79
STANLEY PALMER
Tree - North Manukau
Bamboo engraving, edition 32/50Unframed 42 x 54
Title inscribed, signed & dated 1992
$400 - 800
81
STANLEY PALMER
The Rain Starts Gently Karamatura
Bamboo etching on paper, edtion 43/50, 47.5 x 55.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1971
400 - 600
80
STANLEY PALMER
Anna and Anawhata
Bamboo etching on paper, edition 1/30, 51 x 63
Signed, inscribed & dated 1971
$400 - 600
82
STANLEY PALMER
House - Coromandel
Bamboo Engraving, edition 41/50 42.5 x 45
Signed lower right & dated 1972
$400 - 800
83
STANLEY PALMER
Harataonga
Bamboo engraving & lithograph, edition A/P 37 x 52
Signed & dated 1973
$400 - 600
84
KEITH PATTERSON
Leaves in a Window
Mixed media on paper 70 x 50
Signed & dated 1988
$500 - 1,000
85
KEITH PATTERSON
Coastal Landscape
Mixed media on board 70 x 51
Signed & dated 1989
$500 - 1,000
86
Monkey
Corrugated iron 66 x 48
$4,000 - 6,000
Reflection
Oil on board 64 x 91
Signed & dated 1974
$1,000 - 2,000
87
DAVID BARKER
HANNAH KIDD
FRIEDLANDER
Fomison in Front of Omai, 1978
gelatin print 38.5 x 40.5
$5,000 - 7,500
MARTI
Tony
Silver
MARTI FRIEDLANDER
Moller’s Farm, 1966
Gelatin silver print 49 x 33
Signed on mat board lower right
$6,000 - 10,000
MARTI FRIEDLANDER
Evelyn Page, Wellington, c.1981
Vintage cibachrome photograph 29 x 29
$6,000 - 10,000
Decorative Dish
Dyed rattancore 34 x 33
$200 - 400
RUTH CASTLE
92
DEAN BUCHANAN
Tree Lined Lake
Oil on unstretched canvas 75 x 147
Signed & dated 1999
$2,500 - 3,500
93
DEAN BUCHANAN
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas 90 x 187
Signed & dated 2019
$3,000 - 4,500
94 ROY DALGARNO Warrior
Etching, edition 2/25 35 x 25
Signed
$200 - 400
95
MARILYNN WEBB Rangitoto Special
Lithograph, edition 4/10 51 x 32
Signed, inscribed & dated 78
$200 - 400
96
MARILYNN WEBB
Spring, Tussock River October
Handcoloured - Unframed 57
Title inscribed, $400 - 800
WEBB
Tussock and the Waipou
81 monoprint x 36
inscribed, signed & dated 1988
MARILYNN WEBB
The West Ewe-Burn, Being Very Broody From Being in the Manitoto Suite, 1988
Handcoloured monoprint - Unframed 43 x 60
Title inscribed, signed & dated 1988
$400 - 800
Oil on canvas board 33.5 x 44
Signed lower right
$1,000 - 2,000
COLIN VERNON WHEELER
Waiareka Valley
99
AUSTEN A DEANS
Rangitata Rocks and Hills
Watercolour 35 x 53
Signed & dated 1959 lower left
$3,000 - 5,000
100
OLIVIA SPENCER BOWER
Untitled, Landscape
Watercolour 44 x 55
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
101
JAMES COOK
Avignon
Watercolour 26.5 x 36
Signed & dated ‘28
$800 - 1,600
102
PAUL MARTIN JACKSON
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, 2012/15 - from The Burdon of Ideas and Meaning Series
Oil on linen 72 x 97
$8,000 - 12,000
103
MIKE MORGAN
Mount Eden Cafe Oil on board 70 x 45
Signed & dated 2001
$500 - 1,000
105
MICHAEL MORGAN
Hangover House, Sober House
Acrylic on canvas 81 x 74
Signed & inscribed verso
$800 - 1,200
104
MICHAEL MORGAN The Dream
Acrylic on board 55 x 39
Signed
$500 - 1,000
106
Untitled
Hand painted ceramic tile 84.5 x 30
Signed & dated 84
$300 - 600
107
Korokoro
Watercolour on artist paper 58 x 76
Signed and dated 1989
$2,000 - 4,000
ANNIE BAIRD
GENNIE DE LANGE
Signed upper left
$6,000 - 10,000
108
LOUISE HENDERSON
Hour Series Oil on canvas 50.5 x 73
109 SUZANNE GOLDBERG
Untitled Landscape Oil on board 58 x 81
Signed & dated 1988
$300 - 600
110
JASON HICKS
Playing the Numbers Game Oil on canvas 59 x 59
Signed & dated 2005
$800 - 1,600
111
KELLY YVONNE WILSON
What Lies Beneath Oil on canvas 76 x 51
Signed
$800 - 1,200
Fading Storm
Oil on canvas 91.5 x 181.5
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
IAN SHELDON
113
CHIKARA UMIHARA
Rain, Upstate New York, 2009
Archival Pigment print 20 x 32
Signed on artist label affixed verso
$300 - 600
114
GEOFFREY E FAIRBURN
Untitled - Abstract Composition
Pencil & watercolour on paper 38 x 28
$200 - 400
115
DICK FRIZZELL
Suits All
Screenprint, edition 173/500 38 x 51
Signed in plate
$300 - 600
117
HARRY LINLEY RICHARDSON
Sydney Harbour
Watercolour 27 x 37
Signed
$400 - 600
116
JEAN HORSLEY
Abstract in the Round, 1988
Acrylic on board 94 x 120.5
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
118
COLIN MCCAHON Bathers, 1955
Limited edition print 42 x 62
$3,000 - 4,000
119
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Fungi
Woodblock bookplate 9 x 9
$200 - 400
120
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Flight
Woodblock bookplate 10 x 7.5
$200 - 400
122
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Wētā
Woodblock bookplate 10 x 6.5
$200 - 400
123
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Tuatara
Woodblock bookplate 2 x 5
$200 - 400
121
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Tui
Woodblock bookplate 10.5 x 5
$200 - 400
124
ERNEST MERVYN TAYLOR Legend of Maui
Woodblock bookplate 13 x 10
$200 - 400
125
EILA REED
Untitled, Landscape
Watercolour 27 x 37.5
$800 - 1,200
126
WAYNE SEYB
From My Front Gate
Watercolour 40.5 x 58
Signed & dated lower left 94
$300 - 600
127
FRIEDRICH HUNDERTWASSER
Conservation Week 1974, New Zealand
Offset lithograph with metal foil insets
purple & sliver 84 x 60
Signed in plate
$600 - 1,200
128
DOUGLAS BADCOCK
Near Pinchers Bluff Skippers Canyon
Oil on board 35 x 45
Signed & dated 1960
$1,200 - 1,800
129
CASSANDRA GAISFORD
Euphoria I
Acrylic on canvas 122 x 122
Signed & dated 2024
$3,000 - 6,000
130
Southern Alps
Watercolour 49 x 64
Signed & dated 1968 lower right
$2,500 - 4,000
DORIS LUSK
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