6:30pm Thursday 7 May 2015
Contemporary & Modern Art
6:30pm Thursday 7 May 2014
Auction Venue
Scarborough Gallery, International Art Centre
Lower Ground Level 272 Parnell Road, Auckland
Viewing Times
Friday 1 May 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 2 May Viewing Closed
Sunday 3 May 11:00am - 4:00pm
Monday 4 May 9:00am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 5 May 9:00am - 5:30pm
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Illustrated front cover: Lot 24 Ralph Hotere
Illustrated back cover: Lot 22 Max Gimblett
Illustrated inside back cover: Lot 3 Richard Killeen
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AUCTION: WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015
A SINGLE OWNER COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND
PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY & SCULPTURE 2000 - 2014
Catalogue available 12 may
Who Am I Episode, 2003 Acrylic on canvas 106 x 167
1 MICHAEL SMITHER
Egmont
Screenprint, edition of 70 24 x 21
Signed & dated 1980
$500 - 1,000
2 MICHAEL SMITHER
Motumahanga Square Quartet
Screenprint, edition of 70 22 x 22
Signed & dated 1984
$500 - 1,000
3 RICHARD KILLEEN
Gerenuk with Small Pot
Acrylic on paper 70 x 50
Signed, inscribed & dated 1996
$3,500 - 5,500
Provenance:
Purchased by current owner from Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington 1997
4 RICHARD KILLEEN
Schist Hook with Triple Pelta Design
Element and Ashanti Printing Stamp
Acrylic on paper 70 x 50
Signed, inscribed & dated 1996
$3,500 - 5,500
Provenance:
Purchased by current owner from Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington 1997
5 RICHARD KILLEEN
From Chance & Inevitability
Acrylic on fabriano paper 77 x 57
Signed, inscribed & dated 1982
$3,500 - 5,500
Provenance:
Purchased by current owner from Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland 1982
6 SARAH HILLARY
Still Interior
Watercolour 18 x 12.5
Signed & dated 2009
$800 - 1,200
Provenance:
Deceased Estate Collection
Purchased from Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland 2009
Exhibited:
Lucky, Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland 2 September - 3 October 2009
7 ROBERT JAHNKE
This is not a Native Possession, This is a Snapper Bronze plate and fish on three kauri panels
40 x 70
Inscribed
$4,000 - 6,000
Unique coloured lithograph 100 x 100
Signed & dated 1983 (inside flap)
$2,000 - 3,000
Exhibited: Project Show
Auckland City Art Gallery 1984
Solo Exhibition Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin 1983
9
10
Entertaining Company Oil on canvas 50 x 70
Signed & inscribed
$3,000 - 5,000
Untitled Oil on paper 83 x 59
Signed & dated 1997
$5,000 - 7,000
Provenance: Purchased directly form the artist
11
Three Nudes
Acrylic on paper 120 x 80
Signed & dated 1996
$4,500 - 6,500
12
Three Nudes II
Acrylic on paper 120 x 80
Signed & dated 1996
$4,500 - 6,500
Provenance 11 + 12:
Purchased directly form the artist by the current owner, 1996
Oil & oil stick on paper 63 x 49
Signed 1,500 - 2,500
14
GRETCHEN ALBRECHT
Towards Seasonal (Blossum)
Watercolour 76 x 103
Signed & dated 1985
$4,000 - 6,000
Provenance:
Purchased by current owner from Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland 1982
Blue Estuary Beneath a Nor West Sky Oil on paper 62 x 55
Signed
$1,000 - 2,000
16 HANNAH KIDD
Tryasyoulike
Mild steel, corrugated iron, paint
116 x 147.8
Signed, inscribed & dated 2010 verso
$11,000 - 13,000
17 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
Moonlight in the Window
Oil on canvas 27 x 34.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1992 verso
$1,500 - 2,500
18 ROY GOOD
Architectonic IV
Acrylic on canvas 192.5 x 96
Signed, inscribed & dated 1974 verso
$6,000 - 7,000
Exhibited: Petar James Gallery 1974
Signed & dated 1/2/2000 verso
$12,000 - 16,000
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist
A Pink Assault Oil on canvas 118 x 122
Signed, inscribed & dated 1997 verso
$30,000 - 40,000
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist
Signed & dated 1/2/2000 verso
$7,000 - 10,000
Provenance:
Purchased directly form the artist
Acrylic, polymer, gesso, polyurethane, 23
3/4 kt Swiss gold, Plexiglas, lacquer on canvas panel 64 x 64
Signed & dated 1994 verso
$16,000 - 18,000
Provenance: Private Collection, Wellington
Oil on linen 101.6 x 101.6
Signed & inscribed verso
$13,000 - 15,000
24 RALPH HOTERE
Menorca Binisafua - Aramoana
Acrylic on burnished and incised board 81 x 120
Signed & dated 1978 - 1980 & 1990 - 1991 verso
Inscribed
$100,000 - 140,000
Provenance:
Ex Sebastian Black Collection
Private Collection, Auckland since 2003
In 1978, Ralph, Cilla and daughter Andrea, stayed for a few weeks in Sebastian Black’s house on the Balearic island of Menorca. This was the year in which he did his Avignon paintings commemorating the death of two Popes. In the paintings he places the outline of three stylised fish.
Sebastian Black said, How the intelligentsia had fun. ‘Hotere has found another early Christian symbol,’ they proclaimed, when the only way to find my house was to follow from the airport direction markers of similarly drawn fish. Of course, Hotere knew what he was creating: both signpost and symbol.
Ink, graphite, oil & acrylic on canvas
111.5 x 145.2
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012 verso
$14,000 - 16,000
JOHN WALSH
Tangi for Charlotte Oil on board 85 x 120
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002 verso
$12,000 - 16,000
Provenance:
Purchased by the current owner from an exhibition of John Walsh paintings, Sileni Estates, Hawkes Bay 2002
Oputae Observation Point Series
Burnished corrugated stainless steel 78 x 72
Inscribed
$34,000 - 36,000
Provenance: Purchased from Seifert Gallery, Dunedin by present owner
No. 25 Motorway / City Oil on board 120 x 105
Signed & dated 1969
$15,000 - 20,000
Provenance: Purchased from Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland by present owner 1969
Still Life with the Black Chair
Oil and gold foil on canvas 40 x 60
Signed & dated 1993. Inscribed verso
$3,000 - 5,000
Home Gardener
Acrylic on paper 61 x 45
Signed & dated 1989
$1,500 - 2,500
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
$8,000 - 10,000
37
Surge Channel Oil on canvas 54.5 x 105
Signed verso
$8,000 - 10,000
Pyramid No. 8
To the Labyninth Maungarei and Minotaur, Mrs Captain Cook Oil on board affxedtomacrocarpabase
48 x 45 x 45
Signed, inscribed & dated 2004
$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance:
Purchased by current owner from Artis Gallery, Auckland 2004
38
Paengawhawha/April 2005
Oil and acrylic on linen 101.5 x 71
Signed, inscribed & dated 2005
$14,000 - 16,000
Wairau Valley Oil on canvas 50.5 x 76
Signed, inscribed & dated 2007
$6,000 - 8,000
Provenance: Milford Galleries, Auckland
Purchased from International Art Centre 2009 by current owner.
The Diplomatic Life Watercolour 51 x 68.5
Signed $2,500 - 3,500
41 FATU
Ele Fiafia
Mixed media on canvas 122 x 183
Signed & dated 2000
$6,000 - 10,000
Provenance:
Purchased directly from the artist
42
Eh!
Oil on board 60 x 60
Signed, inscribed & dated 10/7/1985
$8,000 - 12,000
Provenance:
Purchased by the current owner from an exhibition of Dick Frizzell paintings, 1985
43 H VAN DER WAL
Under the Sun
Mixed media on six panels 74 x 55
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002 verso
$500 - 1,000 44
ARTHUR DAGLEY
Port Theme Profile #4
Mixed media on board 129 x 145
Signed & dated 1972
$1,000 - 2,000
45 FIONA PARDINGTON
Gold Marquis de Sade
Polaroid-to-digital C-type photographic print on Fujiflex paper 60 x 48, edition of 10
Signed
$3,800 - 4,800
Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland Purchased from Two Rooms, Auckland
47 ELIZABETH REES
Sepia Sequence
Oil on canvas 100.5 x 160.5
Signed & dated 2009
$13,000 - 15,000
48 TOM ESPLIN
The Old Town Oil on board 57 x 36
Signed $1,500 - 2,500
The Form in Enlightened Autumn Oil on canvas 27.6 x 32.3
Signed & dated 1990
Inscribed verso
$2,000 - 3,000
50 FATU FEU’U
Mixed media on canvas 105 x 90.5
Signed & dated 1997
$3,000 - 5,000
Monoprint 75 x 13.5
Signed , inscribed & dated 2002
$2,800 - 3,600
Signed & dated 2009
$14,500 - 16,500
Signed, inscribed & dated 2010 verso
$11,000 - 13,000
Signed & dated 1987
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance:
Purchased from Barry Lett Galleries, 1987 by present owner
55
Oil on board 31 x 24
Signed, inscribed & dated 2000
$300 - 500
Dolphin and Swimmers
Watercolour 52 x 92
Signed & dated 1969
$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance:
Private Collection since 1969
Acquired directly from the artist
57 NIGEL
The Two Journeys
Acrylic on paper 42 x 36
Signed, inscribed & dated 1978
$1,500 - 2,500
58 CHARLENE CARRINGTON
Australian b. 1978
Untitled Ochre on canvas 90 x 120
WAC 132/03, Artists Name & Wamun Art Centre inscribed verso
$1,000 - 2,000
Provenance: Private Collection, Northland
Purchased from Warmun Art Centre 2003
59 GORDON BARNEY
Australian 20th Century
Untitled Ochre on canvas 90 x 120
WAC 710/02, Artists Name & Wamun Art Centre inscribed verso
$800 - 1,200
Provenance: Private Collection, Northland Purchased from Warmun Art Centre 2003
60 MICHAEL
Wave Breaking Into Rocks
Screenprint 51 x 51
Signed & dated 2003 verso
$700 - 1,000
Spring Landscape from the Studio
Oil on board 44 x 124
Signed & dated 1975
$6,000 - 8,000
Oil on board 41 x 49
Signed & dated 1949
$1,000 - 1,500
Signed & dated 1975
$4,000 - 6,000
Signed & dated 1974
$5,000 - 8,000
Signed & dated 1987
$3,000 - 5,000
Watercolour 72 x 52
Signed & dated 1966
$6,000 - 8,000
Moorhen Preening, Actual Size
Watercolour 51 x 61
Signed & dated 1970
$3,000 - 5,000
Mt. Sefton
Oil on board 60 x 80
Signed & dated 1975
Inscribed verso
$4,000 - 6,000
Illustrated plate 32
My Kind of Painting - Douglas Badcock
Whitcoulls publishing 1978
69 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
Looking Toward Head of Lake Wakatipu
Oil on board 29.2 x 39.3
Signed Inscribed verso
$2,000 - 3,000
Born in 1922 Douglas Badcock had a highly successful professional art career. Preferring to paint en pleinair, 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, coming second in the 1959 competition and third in the 1962 award. He produced at least three publications: My Kind Of Country then later My Kind of Painting and A Painter in Fiji.
In a 2004 Listener article, Mr Badcock said: I paint seas, skies, mountains. I paint the world I know, as it appears to me. I have an image that is there and I have to record it. When I'm painting I let the subject reveal itself. Picasso said I don't seek, I find. And finding is a revelation - intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. The primary motivation is self-expression, but if there's no vision, if we don't see beauty in nature any more, then we're nowhere. Badcock died in 2009.
70
Lower Hollyford River, West Coast Oil on board 60 x 80
Signed Inscribed verso
$4,000 - 6,000
71 DOUGLAS
Raratonga Harbour
Oil on board 33 x 46.3
Signed
$2,000 - 3,000
Illustrated plate 38
My Kind of Painting
Douglas Badcock Whitcoulls publishing 1978
72 DOUGLAS
The Remarkables
Oil on board 29.2 x 39.3
Signed
$2,000 - 3,000
Provenance Lot 68 - 72:
Private Collection, USA
Purchased directly from the artist 1970s
73
SHONA MCFARLANE
Self Portrait 1972
Oil on board 80 x 60
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
74
NIGEL BROWN
The Artist in His Studio
Hand coloured woodcut, edition of 20 76 x 55
Signed, inscribed & dated 1992
$800 - 1,200
Provenance:
Private Collection, USA
75
SHONA MCFARLANE
Reclining Figure
Mixed media on paper 36 x 46
Signed
$500 - 1,000
76
SHONA MCFARLANE
Still Life, Noumea
Mixed media on paper 48 x 60
Signed
$500 - 1,000
77
JEFFREY HARRIS
Found & Recognition - A Pair
Etching, edition of 14, 45.8 x 29.6
Signed, inscribed & dated 1988
$1,000 - 1,500
78
JAN NIGRO
Acitore - Three Faces of Eve
Prisma on paper 51 x 72
Signed, inscribed & dated 1985
$2,000 - 3,000
79
JENNA PACKA
The Mission
Acrylic on canvas 55 x 71
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance:
Purchased at Milford Galleries, Auckland by the present owner
Harbour
Screenprint, edition of 80, 40 x 33
Signed & dated 1985
$500 - 800
Provenance: Private Collection, USA
81 BARBARA BLAKEMORE-FOWLER
Christchurch from Cashmere Hills
Watercolour 42 x 58.5
Signed & dated 1997
$800 - 1,200
Provenance: Ex Artist’s Estate
82 GRAHAME SYDNEY
Drying Hair
Etching, artist’s proof, 18 x 18
Signed, inscribed & dated 1981
$600 - 800
Provenance:
Peter Small Gallery label affxedverso
83
Governors Bay
Limited Edition print on archival rag paper, edition of 25, 39 x 51
Signed & inscribed
$400 - 600
Australian b. 1940
The John Roberts Cup - Six Works Oil on board 29.5 x 39.5
Signed
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance:
Collection of Henrietta Duchess of Bedford
Purchased in Australia, c. 1987
a: The Betting Ring
b: The Jockeys Are Out
c: Final Instructions
d: In the Hands of the Starter
e: The Finish
f: The Winner
85
JASON HICKS
Keeping Up Appearances
Oil on canvas 91 x 61
Signed & dated 2003
$800 - 1,200
86
MICHAEL SMITHER
Three Gulls
Screenprint, edition of 50, 63 x 44
Signed $800 - 1,200
87
HAMISH TOCHER
Untitled No. 5 #2 (Illuminated Books)
Photograph, 32 x 48
Signed & inscribed
$400 - 600
88
JASON HICKS
Water Journal
Oil on canvas 33 x 33
Signed & dated 1998
$800 - 1,200
89
MICHAEL SMITHER
Rocks and Pools
Screenprint, edition of 28, 36 x 55
Signed & dated 1991
$800 - 1,200
90
ROBERT JACKS
Sketches of Spain
Oil on canvas 60 x 45
Signed & dated 2002 verso
$1,000 - 1,500
91
PETER SIDDELL
El Castillo
Pastel on paper 33 x 50
Signed & dated 1996
$3,000 - 4,000
92
JASON HICKS
Dressing for Success
Oil on canvas 91 x 45
Signed & dated 2003
$800 - 1,200
93 WALTER PIACESI
French Contemporary L’Opera D’arte
Oil on paper 30 x 20
Signed
Artist’s book included with this lot
$800 - 1,200
94 TOM FIELD
Beach, Lake Mahinerangi
Woodcut, Edition of 25 31 x 48
Signed & 1984
$400 - 6000
95
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT
British 1880 - 1969
Forlorn Dryads
Dry point etching printed in sepia 11.4 x 15.2
Signed
$800 - 1,200
96
MICHAEL MOORE
Pioneers, West Coast Oil on canvas 123 x 57
Signed & dated 1994 verso
$400 - 600
RON STENBERG
Sitting Nude
Pencil on paper 50 x 25
Signed & dated 1960
$800 - 1,200
98 GRAHAM COOPER
Torso
Bronze 34 x 8
On granite base 8 x 8 x 10.5
$800 - 1,200
99
JACQUES LE NANTEC
Paros
Bronze, edition 16/30, 5 x 26
Certificate of Authenticity and Artist’s Brochure included with this lot
$300 - 400
Maui and Mahuika, 1956
Wood engraving, edition of 90, 14.8 x 10.8
Signed & inscribed
$500 - 800
Dolphins and Lovers
Screenprint, edition of 42, 90 x 64
Signed & dated 2006
$500 - 800
102 KEES BRUIN
Christ with Pilate Washing Hands
Mixed media on board 62 x 100
Signed & dated 1987 verso
$1,000 - 2,000
103
PAULINE THOMPSON
Staircase, Courtyard Fontainbleau Oil on canvas 75 x 100
Signed & dated 1985
$800 - 1,200
Exhibited:
Natural and Other Histories, Denis Cohn Gallery, 1985. Acquired by the present owner from that exhibition.
104
IRENE DENFORD
Just for the Record
Oil & acrylic on board 86.5 x 116
Signed
$1,000 - 1,500
105 NEIL DRIVER
Sheep Pen Oil on board 34 x 58
Signed & dated 1980
$1,500 - 2,500
106 GEOFF WILLIAMS
Cabbages & Capsicums
Acrylic on board 40 x 68
Signed
$2,400 - 2,800
107
RUSSELL JACKSON
Kingfisher Astelia
Acrylic on board 36 x 46
Signed & dated September 1997
$800 - 1,200
Tern, Mercer Bay, Karekare
Acrylic on board 36 x 46
Signed & dated September 1997
$800 - 1,200
109 GREG BURTON
Binary
Acrylic and ink on canvas 45 x 55
Signed, inscribed & dated 2006 verso
$600 - 1,000
110 W A BILL MCCORMACK
Main Road at Mamaku
Oil on canvas 44.5 x 69.5
Signed & dated 1992 verso
$500 - 1,000
111 NIGEL BROWN
Suburban Driveway
Watercolour 42 x 35
Signed & dated 1973
$1,750 - 2,250
112 CHARLES NATHANIEL WORSLEY
Fleet Street, London
Watercolour 50 x 32
Signed
$2,000 - 3,000
113
DENIS KNIGHT TURNER
Oedipus
Ink and wash on paper 28 x 21
Signed
$800 - 1,200
Provenance:
Here There Here 1943 - 1993 D K Turner
Sarjeant Gallery Touring Exhibition
Catalogue no. 20
Exhibition label affxedverso
114
DICK FRIZZELL
Sambuca Blu
Screenprint, edition of 50, 60 x 43
Signed & dated 1996
$500 - 800
115
NUGENT WELCH
The Heads, Breaker Bay, Wellington
Watercolour 22 x 28
Signed
$550 - 750
116
ARCHIBALD FRANK NICOLL
Cottage in Spring
Watercolour 22 x 28
Signed
$800 - 1,200
117
GARTH TAPPER
Highway 12
Pencil & ink on paper 18 x 14
Signed
$150 - 300
118
JOHN PULE
Vaka
Woodcut, edition of 18, 105 x 35
Signed, inscribed & dated 1994
$1,500 - 2,000
119 G P CANITZ
South African Travel Poster
Lithograph 102 x 65
Machine signed
$800 - 1,200
120 LAWRENCE WILLIAM WILSON
Lake Wakatipu
Watercolour 21 x 27
Signed
$500 - 1,000
121 TREVOR LLOYD
Tiki Figure
Ink on paper 55 x 27
Signed
$800 - 1,200
122 JAMES EASTWOOD
Ocean Beach, Dunedin
Watercolour 12.5 x 18
Signed, inscribed & dated 1878 verso
$400 - 600
123 ROY DALGARNO
Blue Nude Etching over callagraph edition of 30, 42 x 58.5
Signed & inscribed
$200 - 400
124 MICHEL TUFFREY
Taata Ahu & Raiatea - A Pair
Lithograph 77 x 56
Signed, inscribed & dated 1995
$400 - 600
125 PETER IRELAND
Journey of the Passion Oil on paper 25 x 54
Signed, inscribed & dated 9 December - 23 April 1986
$200 - 400
Exhibited: Peter Ireland Stations and Mysteries Manawatu Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, 1987. Gallery label affxed verso
126 STANLEY PALMER
Te Kopa Reranga 11
Engraving, artists proof, 33 x 44
Signed, inscribed & dated 1980
$300 - 500
Colyton
Screenprint edition of 100 64 x 107.5
Signed & inscribed $1,500 - 2,500
Together with a bottle of Christensen Estate, Waiheke Island Merlot with original Karl Maughan on canvas label 9 x 12.5 attached to bottle.
Proceeds to Howick Primary School
