IMPORTANT & RARE ART
7:00pm Tuesday 30 July 2019
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Oil on canvas 24.3 x 19.1cm Signed & dated 1919
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
Memories” Harata Tuhaere Rewiri Tarapata of Orakei
IMPORTANT & RARE ART
7:00pm Tuesday 30 July 2019 at 202 Parnell Road Auckland
AUCTION contacts
Richard Thomson
Ph +64 9 379 4010 richard@artcntr.co.nz Mobile 0274 751071
Maggie Skelton
Ph +64 9 379 4010 maggie@artcntr.co.nz
TOLL FREE 0800 800 322
Waterfall, December 1964
Oil on hardboard 30.3 x 30.3cm
Estimate $35,000 - 45,000
CONSIGN NOW ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 28
Important & Rare auctions are the proven, preeminent sale category for major works of art offered for sale in New Zealand. These auctions take place three times annually. As we fast approach our 50th year in business, experience continues to equal results. 2014 saw Important & Rare auctions realise five of New Zealand’s top ten auction prices. The following year saw new records set with the two top prices in Auckland achieved. With the addition of the record $1.377 million paid for a C F Goldie in April’s 2016 sale, International Art Centre achieved the three highest art auction prices in New Zealand’s history. 2018 was a record year for the business. With an appreciative, and greatly valued clientele of nationwide and international buyers and sellers we look forward to breaking new ground.
MAX GIMBLETT
The Bite of the Golden Snake, 2011
Gesso, acrylic & vinyl 63.5 x 63.5cm
Realised $46,600 including premium April 2019
COLIN MCCAHON
St. Francis and the Wolf, 2007 - 2018
Oil and alkyd on board 120 x 100cm
Estimate $120,000 - 160,000
MICHAEL SMITHER
Realised $624,650 incl. buyers premium
CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
Wharekauri Tahuna, A Chieftain of the Arawa Tribe, 1938
Oil on canvas 47 x 41.5cm
COLLECTABLE ART
Thursday 22 August 2019
ENTRIES NOW INVITED until 26 July
The buzz generated by our Collectable Art auctions reflects the popularity of these sales: an event at which seasoned connoisseurs and budding collectors alike converge to appreciate one of the most eclectic and diverse offerings available to the market. Works span the vital period from mid-century modernism through to thecutting-edge of today’s Contemporary art in New Zealand.
This sale category is an increasingly significant event in our auction calendar. Offering a number of lower-priced works from highlysought after artists in print and edition form, as well as quality works from artists whose presence on the secondary market is just beginning to crystallise.
Consign works for this sale now Toll Free 0800 800 322
Maggie Skelton
Ph +64 9 379 4010 maggie@artcntr.co.nz
Luke Davies Ph +64 9 379 4010 luke@artcntr.co.nz
Jeff Thomson
realised $9,910
Space Poem, 1977
Dye and acrylic on canvas 330 x 90 Est. $2,000 - 4,000
PHILIPPA BLAIR
ASTONISHING ART
SAT 4 MAY — SUN 1 SEP 2019 at
INCLUDES WORKS BY PICASSO, MONET, DEGAS, MATISSE AND MORE
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WU GUANZHONG (Chinese 1919 - 2010)
Trees and Snow Mountain, 1988 Ink and colour on paper 86 x 69
Estimate NZ$400,000 - 600,000
International Art Centre is delighted to offer three rare Chinese works in the July catalogue, all from a private collection. One is by China’s most celebrated artists, Wu Guanzhong (1919 - 2010). The works were purchased in 1988 by an Auckland based couple who were stationed in Hong Kong during the 1980s and are now downsizing. With recent auction success of works by Sir Cedric Morris, Arthur Meric Bloomfield Boyd, Francis Bacon, Dorit Black and Maurits Cornelis
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland Purchased from Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd Hong Kong, 27/4./1992
EXHIBITED
Wu Guanzhong - Kaleidoscope, May 16 to 27, 1989
Illustrated on front cover (above) and p. 61 Wu Guanzhong — Kaleidoscope Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd
Escher, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Elsworth Kelly, David Hockney, Hans Hofmann, George Rickey & others, it is evident that International Art Centre negates the need for New Zealand based vendors to export their foreign works to auction. With our online bidding platform buyers can bid accross the world on these items, this coupled with a growing number of global contacts ensures works are exposed to the correct collectors internationally.