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2 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 29 October 2014
Important, Early & Rare
6:30pm Wednesday 29 October 2014
Viewing times
Thursday 23 October 9:00am - 5:30pm
Friday 24 October 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 25 October 11:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday 26 October 11:00am - 4:00pm
Monday 27 October Viewing Closed Labour Day
Tuesday 28 October 9:00am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 29 October 9:00am - 1:00pm
Other times by appointment
Ralph Hotere $36,340
Peter Siddell $170,000
J Keulemans $23,450
Felix Kelly $18,170
Ralph Hotere $43,900
Alvin Pankhurst $55,100
Gordon Walters $37,500 C
Goldie $189,350
Ralph Hotere $38,880
John Gully $60,050
Edward Fristrom $10,550
Olivia Spencer Bower
Michael Smither $31,650
Frances Hodgkins $38,100
Raymond Ching $53,900
Len Castle $9,380
$43,900
Peter McIntyre $25,200
Mike Petre $16,415
Karl Maughan $31,650
Trevor Mofftt$11,100
Buck Nin 19,900
Jane Evans $19,900
C F Goldie $234,500
Evelyn Page $18,760
Charles Frederick Goldie Kawhena Sold $732,800 November 2013
August Auction Record
DAME EILEEN MAYO Sea Holly Fetched $55,400 incl. premium
A record $47,500 achieved for a painting by Eileen Mayo at Important, Early & Rare, International Art Centre 6 August 2014. Sea Holly was bought by the Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest as a gift to the Auckland Art Gallery. Sea Holly is one of the finest paintings by Dame Eileen Mayo to be offered for sale. It featured 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. The work was 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.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is to feature Sea Holly on their 2014 Christmas Card.
The sale was well attended and prices were consistent on the night with a 79% selling rate. Some rare early works by Sir WIlliam Fox attracted considerable attention selling for $22,500 and $9,000 respectively. Numerous works achieved higher end of estimate or more - Peter Siddell’s House on Fawn Hill made $9,500 against it’s $5,000 - 8,000 estimate.
The August and September auctions totalled sales of $1.6 million
Prices include buyers premium
‘Auction Records Tumble at Fletcher Trust Sale’
Briar Williams, Australian Art Sales Digest
‘A Shot in the Arm for the Art Market’ - NZ Herald
International Art Centre were favoured with the sale of seventy seven works from the Fletcher Trust Collection in September. A sale result of 94% was achieved and over $805,000 worth of art changed hands in less than ninety minutes. Several auction records were achieved, most notably $103,000 for Raymond McIntyre’s Self Portrait incl. premium when a private buyer outbid institutional interest. Works by Rhona Haszard, May Smith and Paul Radford also fetched auction records.
A spirited bidding battle for Michael Smither’s Hills Of Tongaporutu created excitement with the work fetching $86,700 incl. buyers premium against it’s $45,000 - 55,000 estimate. Two works by Geoff Thornley sold at the top end of the estimates as did four works by the late Ian Scott 1945 - 2013.
Alfred Sharpe’s ‘Taupiri Gorge From The Kupukupa Coal Mines made $31,000 and three John Kinder watercolours sold at the top end of their estimates. Prices include buyers premium
Raymond McIntyre $103,000
Michael Smither $86,700
Gordon Walters $26,300
Pat Hanly $52,760
John Holmwood $20,500
Rhona Haszard $32,800
Philip Clairmont $42,400
Gretchen Albrecht $18,760
Auction
6:30pm Wednesday 29 October
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Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 29 October 2014
1 PETER SIDDELL 1935 - 2011
Suburban Houses Oil on board 60 x 44
Signed & dated 1970
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland since 1970
2 PETER STICHBURY b. 1976
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30
Signed, inscribed ‘Untitled’ & dated 1998 verso
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland since 1998
Mixed media on board 156 x 121
Signed & dated 1990
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
Bronze 20 x 28.5
Signed & dated 2006
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
3 KEITH PATTERSON
1925 - 1993
The Fisherman’s House (4)
4 PAUL DIBBLE b. 1943
Reclining Nude
b. 1968
Shop Entrance
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,250 - 4,250
Moroccan Marketplace
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
6 JOHN WEEKS 1886 - 1965
Tempera on board 51 x 64
5 NEIL DRIVER
Acrylic on board 62 x 54
7 MICHAEL HIGHT
b. 1961
Waitakare
Oil on canvas 40 x 120
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002
ESTIMATE
$6,500 - 8,500
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Lopdell House, 2002
Private Collection, Auckland
8 ROBERT ELLIS b. 1929
Motorway Journey
Oil on board 60.5 x 60.5
Signed & dated 1970
Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased by current owner, 1970
Private Collection, Auckland
EXHIBITED
Barry Lett Galleries 1970, no. 20
Inscribed B.L. Ex no. 20 verso
9 ROBIN KAHUKIWA
b. 1940
Hapu (Taranga)
Oil, alkyd resin on canvas 153 x 101
Signed & dated 2014
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 7,000
10 FATU FEU’U
b. 1946
Absolute Power
Miixed media on canvas 160 x 215
Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
11
1946 - 2012
Girl in Blue Overalls
Oil on board 65 x 55
Signed & dated 1981
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 9,000
12 TREVOR
1936 - 2006
The Artist as a Solo Father - Painting Barbara
Oil on board 60 x 60
Signed & dated 1984
ESTIMATE
$5,500 - 7,500
1931 - 2013
Taiaroa Head & Aramoana
Mixed media on paper 30 x 40
Signed, inscribed & dated 1981
ESTIMATE
$15,000 - 20,000
13 RALPH HOTERE
JANE EVANS
MOFFITT
14 GARTH TAPPER
1927 - 1999
Woman Resting
Oil on board 32 x 37
Signed
ESTIMATE
$6,000 - 9,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased from a One Man Exhibition
John Leech Gallery, Auckland 1965
Original label affxied verso
15 PETER SIDDELL
1935 - 2011
Maungawhau
Watercolour 38 x 45
Signed & dated 1986
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
16 TONY FOMISON
1939 - 1990
Untitled #186 1977
Oil on canvas mounted on wooden panel 46.3 x 41.6
Inscribed #186 front & verso
ESTIMATE
$30,000 - 36,000
PROVENANCE
Ex Jeffrey Harris Collection
Private Collection
EXHIBITED
Tony Fomison : a survey of his painting and drawing from 1961 to 1979, October 14th to November 18th 1979
Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt, 1979 Exhibition label affxedverso
Tony Fomison 24 September - 7 October 2010
Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin
REFERENCE
Cat. no. 543
Fomison: What Shall We Tell Them?
Ian Wedde, City Gallery, Wellington1994
17 RALPH HOTERE
1931 - 2013
Pine - Bucket of Stars
Watercolour 57 x 35
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from artist 1970s
Private Collection, Auckland
18 RALPH HOTERE
1931 - 2013
Oputae Observation Point Series
Burnished corrugated stainless steel 78 x 72
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$35,000 - 45,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased by current owner from Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin, circa 1983
19 NEIL FRAZER
b. 1961
Black Sand Ridge
Acrylic on canvas 152.9 x 152.9
Signed, inscribed & dated 2008 verso
ESTIMATE
$15,000 - 18,000
20 STANLEY PALMER
b. 1936
Towards Whangarei Heads
Oil on linen 162 x 225
Signed & dated 1990
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 25,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland
Purchased from The Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga 1992
EXHIBITION
Stanley Palmer Poor Knights Series
The Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga 1992
21 ROBERT ELLIS
b. 1929
Maungawhau / Mt Eden
Mixed media on paper 99.5 x 70
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 9,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Dunedin
22
b. 1964
Ravensbourne
Oil on linen 121.8 x 182.9
Signed, inscribed & dated 2013 verso
ESTIMATE
$24,000 - 28,000
KARL MAUGHAN
23 PHILIP CLAIRMONT
1949 - 1984
Country Carnivore Carnival Oil on jute 140 x 94
ESTIMATE
$35,000 - 45,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Dunedin since 1997
One of the striking things about Country Carnivore Carnival is the incredible downward vortex of energy that Clairmont channels through the lowered head; down through the seated figure’s arms; and finally through the hand which grips a pencil with vehement force like he would a wood-cutting blade. Also striking, is the bleached sheep’s skull – that stands in for the person’s face – which seems to be spitting white phlegm or snorting shards of bone across the lower half of the painting. In other works from about the same period, we are used to Clairmont showering his compositions with shards of harsh tungsten light – a reference to his habit of painting at night under a bare bulb. But here, the sprays of white paint lend this painting quite a different and explosive expressive energy.
Philip Clairmont was celebrated from the late 1970s as perhaps New Zealand’s leading figurative colourist and neo-expressionist. He was born in Nelson in 1949, studied at Ilam in Christchurch under Rudolf Gopas and lived and worked in Auckland alongside Tony Fomison and Allen Maddox during his short career, before committing suicide at the age of 34. He was inspired by the spatial intensities of interiors; obsessed by the theatrical drama of artificial light; and his paintings sought out, as he said, the essence of objects and their suggestive properties.
Alongside such objects as chairs, staircases and fireplaces, and though Clairmont generally shunned the human figure, he returned again and again to the self-portrait.
Country Carnivore Carnival is best understood as one of his many selfportraits, but it is unique among them. While many of his portraits include a painted title and some symbolic reference to the sitter’s activity and state of being, these elements often sit outside the figure itself. Self Portrait - Listening to Music (1982) has musical notes floating through the air next to the figure; and in Self Portrait at 33 (1982) Clairmont is accompanied by a distant view, out the window, of Christ on the Cross at Gethsemane. But here, whatever state of mind or ‘bombardment of the senses’ the artist is grappling with, has been folded into the sitter’s head, hand and phlegm. What are we to make of the vehemence, the splattered surface, the tightly gripped pencil in his hand and the skull-head? At the very least, in this remarkable painting, it is a visual echo of the artist’s own claim that ‘painting should be a struggle all the time – an attempt at a break-through.’
ROB GARRETT
25 ALVIN
1939 - 1990
Inward Eye
Oil on canvas board 33 x 41.5
Signed & dated 1-15.2.88
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 22,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection Auckland
Purchased by current owner, 1988
b. 1949
Still Life 9.42 am - Morning Sun
Oil on canvas 71 x 99
Signed & dated 1986
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection Dunedin
24 TONY FOMISON
PANKHURST
26 JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965
Still Life with Posy & Lemons Oil on board 50.5 x 40.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
27 TOSS WOOLLASTON
1910 - 1998
Tasman Bay Oil on board 90 x 120
Signed & dated 1986
ESTIMATE
$30,000 - 40,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased by current owner from Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Gallery label affxedverso
28 TONY FOMISON
1939 - 1990
Crowded Ward
Oil on canvas board 39.5 x 54.5
Signed & dated 1987
Inscription verso reads: ‘In this crowded ward the beds were close together and someone died every night’
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 24,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection Auckland
Purchased by current owner, 1987
29 IAN SCOTT
1945 - 2013
Lattice No. 42
PVA on canvas 150 x 150
Signed, inscribed & dated 1978 verso
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Sold by International Art Centre, March 1998
Private Collection, Wellington
30 MAUD BURGE
1865 - 1957
On the Way to Market, Brittany Watercolour 41 x 33
Signed
ESTIMATE
$5,500 - 7,500
PROVENANCE
Collection of Scott Pothan, Founding Director, Whangarei Art Museum
On the Way to Market, Brittany is similar to The Pig Market Montreuil, Te Papa Collection, which was gifted to the national collection by the artist in 1912. During this time, Burge was painting with her friend Frances Hodgkins in Brittany. Burge was a pupil of James McLaughlan Nairn, and Charles Frederick Goldie. She studied in France, married artist George Burge in 1911, and was associated with British artists Frank Brangwyn and Philip Connard.
31 MAUD WINIFRED SHERWOOD
1880 - 1956
Camping at Dee Why, NSW
Watercolour 32 x 31
Signed
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist’s family
In 1924 Dunedin born Maud Sherwood was elected to the committee of the Australian Watercolour Institute in Sydney. In April 1925 she returned to Wellington and held a solo exhibition with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. She returned to Australia but left in 1926 to travel, work and exhibit in Italy, France, Spain and Tunisia. In 1932 she exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Maud Sherwood returned to Australia in 1933. After her sevenyear working tour overseas, exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne received critical acclaim which placed her amongst the leading Australian watercolourists. In 1933 she was elected to the Society of Artists, Sydney. She received a Coronation Medal in 1937 and an Australian 150th Anniversary Exhibition Medal in 1938. In 1937 she was foundation member of the Australian Academy of Art and exhibited at the National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art in 1940.
Sherwood remained in Australia where she continued to work until her death in 1956.
32 NUGENT WELCH 1881 - 1970
A Street Scene in a Shattered French Village Watercolour 13.5 x 22
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
33 NUGENT WELCH
1881 - 1970
The Addena Watercolour 22 x 27
Signed, inscribed & dated 1906
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
34 MAUD WINIFRED SHERWOOD
1880 - 1956
At the Show
Charcoal and watercolour 34.5 x 37.2
Signed
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist’s family
CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
Thoughts of a Tohunga, 1938
By the 1930s Goldie’s reputation in New Zealand was being challenged by a new generation. In Europe, however his paintings met with great acclaim when exhibited at London’s Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.
Te Wharekauri Tahuna, Ngati Manawa was one of the last tattooed warriors of his generation. When young, he was captured by a Te Arawa war party and taken to Rotorua, where he chose to live after his release.
35 CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
1870 - 1947
Wharekauri Tahuna - A Chieftain of the Arawa Tribe
Oil on canvas 47 x 41.5
Signed & dated 1938
ESTIMATE
$350,000 - 500,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland
Purchased at Webb’s July, 1985
36
JOHN KINDER
1819 - 1903
Crater of Poerua, Bay of Islands
Watercolour 25 x 33.5
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
John Kinder was an Anglican clergyman, teacher, artist and photographer.
Kinder was born in London in 1819, the oldest surviving child of a wealthy merchant and his second wife.
As a clergyman Kinder took services at various churches, including St Barnabas’s in Mechanics Bay, St Andrew’s in Epsom and St Mark’s in Remuera. During the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s he was chaplain to the British forces. Although he took up painting and photography as hobbies, it is these that now appear to be his greatest achievements. During his lifetime his work was shown publicly on only two occasions: in 1871 and 1873 at the first two exhibitions of the Auckland Society of Artists, of which Kinder was a founding member.
37
JOHN KINDER
1819 - 1903
Hokianga from Websters
Watercolour 25 x 33.5
Inscribed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
38
JOHN KINDER
1819 - 1903
Mount Te Aroha and the Thames
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper 28 x 45
Inscribed & dated 1886
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
John Kinder died at his home in Parnell on 5 September 1903, he was buried in the graveyard at St John’s College, survived by his wife, Celia Kinder, who died in 1928.
39 FELIX KELLY
1914 - 1994
The Kiln Oil on board 37 x 50
Signed & dated 1950
Inscribed ‘The Kiln’ in artist’s hand verso. Also inscribed Box no. 3
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, United Kingdom
ILLUSTRATED
p. 149 Fix The Art and Life of Felix Kelly First & Second Edition
Darrow Press 2008 and Creative Educational Press 2013
EXHIBITED
Leicestershire County Collection of Contemporary Works of Art Reference no. C.C.32. Original label affxedverso
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 Revisited in the 1980s.
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, was published in 2013.
40 RAYMOND MCINTYRE
1879 - 1933
Entrance to the Park, London
Oil on board 34.5 x 25.5
Signed & dated 1920
ESTIMATE
$60,000 - 70,000
PROVENANCE
Ex. Sir Percy Sargood Collection
Private Collection, Otago
EXHIBITED
National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art 1840 - 1940 - Dunedin Public Art Gallery 1940
Inscription verso reads:
Sir Percy Sargood. National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art 1840 - 1940 held at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Like many successful painters of this era, Raymond McIntyre’s life abroad enabled him to engage with contemporary European trends inaccessible from New Zealand. Having moved to London in 1909, thirty one year old McIntyre was a well established figure in the local art scene in the early 20th century. Here he enjoyed a successful relationship with the Goupil Gallery, London's leading international contemporary gallery of the time. He exhibited with the New English Art Club and had work accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts. A private person, he did not exhibit between 1926 and his death in 1933, the reasons for which are not fully clear. Entrance to the Park is one of a series of London street scenes painted
between 1911 and 1926 and depicts a gathering of walkers at the gated entrance of a garden. Short, thick strokes of paint capture the essence of his subject rather than its details, showing influences of impressionism while the vibrant colours reflect Mclnytre's ongoing interest in Fauvism. Painted from a high view point, typical for Mclntyre, it is an eloquent work that displays a quiet confidence. Entrance to the Park relates strongly to a watercolour Park Entrance c.1920 illustrated p. 64 Raymond Mclntyre: A New Zealand Painter, 1984, Heineman.
41 CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
1870 - 1947
No Koora te Cigaretti, Portrait of Kapi Kapi (aged 102 years)
Oil on canvas 20 x 15
Signed & dated 1917
ESTIMATE
$190,000 - 250,000
PROVENANCE
Ex V E Donald Collection
EXHIBITED
Auckland Society of Arts, 1917, £10.10s
ILLUSTRATED
Auckland Society of Arts Exhibition Catalogue,1917
Cordy’s Catalogue, Auckland September, 1975
p. 245 C F Goldie His Life & Painting, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, Alister Taylor publishing 1977
Ahinata Te Rangituatini, also known as Kapi Kapi, of Rotorua was one of Goldie’s favourite sitters and he painted her at least twenty two times. She was an Arawa Chieftainess, a member of the Tuhourangi tribe living at Whakarewarewa. The sister of the Arawa chief Haerehuka, Kapi Kapi survived the 1886 Tarawera eruption and witnessed the assault of Pukeroa Pa at Ohinemutu. On her shoulders were scars of wounds self-inflicted with pieces of obsidian as a sign of mourning.
According to the historian and friend of Goldie, James Cowan, Kapi Kapi worked until the end of her long life, evidence, in his opinion, that the ‘old-time Maori’ were ‘truly a Spartan race’. Kapi Kapi was renowned for her moko, which Goldie depicted in fine detail. According to Cowan, she was the only Maori woman painted by Goldie who had a rare spiral nostril tattoo. She died at the age of 102 after falling into a hot pool, it is said deliberately as was the custom among some of the aged Maori.
42 RITA ANGUS
1908 - 1970
Mangonui Harbour
Watercolour 28 x 38
Signed
ESTIMATE
$24,000 - 30,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
Formally in the collection of Sir Ivor & Lady Richardson, Wellington
This work is a similar composition to Mangonui, watercolour 26.6 x 26.8cm, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, illustrated page 143 Life & Vision, edited by William McAloon & Jill Trevelan, Te Papa Press, 2008.
Rita Angus visited friends Roy and Joyce Milligan at Mangonui, Northland during the winter 1953 and again in December. By October 1954 she was living in a cottage there and working on landscapes of the surrounding area. Paintings produced at this time, including Mangonui, Northland were exhibited with The Group. When plans to purchase the cottage fell through the artist returned to Wellington in April of 1955.
43 RITA ANGUS
1908 - 1970
Still Life with Potted Plant
Gouache and watercolour on paper 25 x 18
Signed
ESTIMATE
$13,000 - 16,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
Formally in the collection of Sir Ivor & Lady Richardson, Wellington
44 RITA ANGUS
1908 - 1970
Landscape Near Amberley
Watercolour 30.6 x 41.1
Signed
ESTIMATE
$18,000 - 24,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Wellington
Formally in the collection of Sir Ivor & Lady Richardson, Wellington
45 PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995
King Country Farmer
Oil on canvas 59 x 76
Signed
ESTIMATE
$30,000 - 40,000
Peter McIntyre was born in Dunedin. His father, a lithograpic artist, founded Dunedin’s Caxton Printing Company. Young McIntyre attended Otago Boys’ High School and the University of Otago. He studied painting under Dunedin artist Alfred O’Keeffe. McIntrye left New Zealand to study at London’s Slade School of Art from 1931 until 1934. He worked in Britain as a free-lance artist until enlisting in 1939 with the 34th Anti-Tank Battery, a New Zealand unit formed in London. In 1941 whilst serving in Egypt, he was appointed as New Zealand’s offcialwarartistbyMajorGeneralFreyberg.
From 1941 to 1945 McIntyre recored action in Crete, North Africa and Italy. His work was exhibited in New Zealand and Europe and reproduced in magazines such as the Illustrated London News and the New Zealand Listener. His work from this period belongs to the collection of war art at the National Archives in Wellington.
Returning to New Zealand in 1946 McIntyre began a long and illustrious post war career. He lived and exhibited in Wellington, frequently undertaking painting trips abroad. In 1962 A.H. Reed published The Painted Years, the first of eight books he would illustrate and write between then and 1981.
Travels to Antarctica, Hong Kong, the Pacific Islands and the American West provided material for these sought-after publications. Many of the Hong Kong paintings (see Lot 50) were seen throughout the United States in a three year touring exhibition.
McIntyre owned a holiday cottage in Kakahi which became both his studio and retreat. The King Country inspired some of the artist’s finest work and he painted the landscape, inhabitants, native bush, rivers and farming scenes of the central North Island. This work, King Country Farmer, convey’s his affnitywithboththelandscapeandpersonalitiesoftheregion.
In 1970 McIntyre was awarded an OBE. In the 1970s and 1980s his work continued to draw attention through record prices and gallery attendances. A retrospective exhibition of McIntyre’s war paintings was held at the City Gallery in Wellington in 1995. Opening on 22 July, the show had been visited by more than 22,000 people when the artist died in Wellington on 11 September. Today he is recognised as one of this country’s most important artists.
46 CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
1870 - 1947
The Weariness of the Aged Kapi Kapi an Arawa Chieftainess Aged 102 Years
Oil on canvas 25.8 x 20.3
Signed & dated 1918
ESTIMATE
$180,000 - 220,000
PROVENANCE
Ex collection of Sir Henry Brett, Takapuna, Auckland
Purchased by current owner, Webb’s 2003
ILLUSTRATED
Brett’s Christmas Annual, 1 December 1924
p. 251 C F Goldie His Life & Painting, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, Alister Taylor publishing 1977
In Polynesian portraiture Mr C F Goldie stands pre-eminent in the world today, and New Zealand has every reason to be proud of him
Governor General Lord Bledisloe
Reproduced with kind permission of Alister Taylor. C F Goldie: His Life & Painting and C F Goldie: Prints, Drawings & Criticism, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, 1979
58 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 29 October 2014
- 1995
The Maori Lake, Lake Rotongaio, Taupo Watercolour 51 x 75
Signed
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland
- 1995
Jetty, Lake Rotoiti Oil on board 50 x 60
Signed
ESTIMATE
$12,000 - 14,000
PROVENANCE
MacGregor Wright Gallery label affxedverso
48 PETER MCINTYRE 1910
47 PETER MCINTYRE 1910
49 PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995
Old St Bathans Gold Mine
Oil on board 50 x 61
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE
Purchased from a One Man Exhibition, John Leech Gallery, 1964
Original label affxedverso
50 PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995
Woman of Hong Kong Oil on canvas 53 x 43
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, USA
51 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Whangaparoa, Northland Oil on board 40 x 55
Signed
Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$4,500 - 6,500
52 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Coronet Peak Oil on board 29.5 x 40
Signed
Inscribed verso
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
PROVENANCE
Artist’s Estate Collection
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 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.
1822 - 1897
The Blue Lake Watercolour 25 x 40
Signed & dated 1874
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
53 CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
& dated 1970
ESTIMATE
$9,000 - 12,000
55 RALPH HOTERE 1931 - 2013
Untitled Ink on paper 45 x 32 Signed
54 COLIN MCCAHON 1919 - 1987
Kauri Tree, 1954
Lithograph 33.5 x 25
56 A AUSTIN DEANS
1915 - 2011
Mt Torlesse Summer 1939
Oil on board 50 x 65
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
57 PETRUS VAN DER VELDEN
1837 - 1913
Study of Disillusioned
Oil on canvas 60 x 50
The Petrus van der Velden Art
Collection label verso issued by The Public Trust OffceChristchurch.
Catalogue no. 66
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
EXHIBITED
Petrus van der Velden
The Robert McDougall Art Gallery
11 November - 12 December 1963
Label affxedverso
58 JOHN FREDERICK HULK 1829 - 1911
A Barge in a Dutch Canal Town & Figures with a Horse & Cart in a Village Street - A Pair
Oil on canvas 45.7 x 35.6
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
59 GEORGE O’BRIEN
1821 - 1888
Ross Creek, Leith Valley Watercolour 29 x 39.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$5,000 - 8,000
60 LAURENCE WILLIAM WILSON 1850 - 1912
Mount Tutoka from Pykes River, Martins Bay Oil on canvas 29 x 45
Signed, inscribed & dated 1900
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
1835 - 1913
Whangaroa Harbour, Northland
Watercolour 36 x 63
Signed & dated 1873
ESTIMATE
$12,000 - 16,000
61 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
b. 1939
Don Forrest 1975
Oil on panel 35 x 28
Signed
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
EXHIBITED
Raymond Ching Recent Paintings & Drawings
International Art Centre 1979
ILLUSTRATED
p. 172 Ray Harris Ching Journey of An Artist
Carol Sinclair Smith, Gulf Publishing 1990
63 MAUD WINIFRED SHERWOOD
1880 - 1956
Near Tasman Glacier
Oil on board 49 x 39
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
62 RAYMOND CHING
1835 - 1913
Watercolour 32 x 53
Signed
ESTIMATE
$8,000 - 12,000
64 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
Queen Charlotte Sound
65 ROLAND WAKELIN
New Zealand / Australia1887 - 1971
Culverdon, New Zealand
Oil on board 42.5 x 53.3
Signed & dated 1947
ESTIMATE
$7,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE
Original Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne label affxedverso
66 JOHN PETER RUSSELL
Australia 1858 - 1930
Souvenir of Macks Island, New Zealand
Watercolour 20.5 x 30.1
Signed, inscribed & dated 1922
ESTIMATE
$4,000 - 6,000
67 HANS HEYSEN
Australia 1877 - 1968
The Red Gum Morning Watercolour 32 x 40
Signed
Inscribed: Hans Heysen Ambleside, South Australia 1933 verso
ESTIMATE
$10,000 - 15,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland
ARTIST UNKNOWN 20th Century
Maori Woman at Marae Oil on canvas 71 x 48
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500 69 HENRY WILLIAM KIRKWOOD 1854 - 1925 Paritutu Oil on board 19.5 x 43 Signed ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 1,500
70 J R ROLLASON
Late 19th Century
View of Lake Taupo with Ngaruahoe Erupting Beyond Oil on board 40 x 76
Signed
ESTIMATE
$600 - 1,000
71 JAMES MCLAUCHLAN NAIRN
1859 - 1904
Silverstream Watercolour 26 x 35
Signed & dated 1897
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
72 MABEL HILL
1872 - 1956
The Lighthouse, Tairoa Heads, Otago Watercolour 22 x 27
Signed & dated 1924
ESTIMATE
$800 - 1,200
73 CHARLES NATHANIEL WORSLEY
1862 - 1923
Gypsy Gossips, Spain
Watercolour 34 x 25
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
78 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 29 October 2014
74 MARGARET OLROG STODDART
1865 - 1934
West Coast Beach Scene
Watercolour 38.5 x 50.5
Signed
ESTIMATE
$3,000 - 5,000
75 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
Speargrass Flat, Wakatipu Oil on board 34.5 x 47
Signed & dated 1975
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
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 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.
76 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009
12 Mile Rapids, Wakatipu District, South Island
Oil on board 50 x 70
Signed & dated 1980
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
77 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
1835 - 1913
In the Sounds Watercolour 18 x 34
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,500 - 3,500
78 WILLIAM HENRY RAWORTH
1821 - 1904
Fisherman’s Bluff Watercolour 33 x 66
Signed & dated 1893
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
79 KATHLEEN BROWNE
1905 - 2007
Mother with Children Oil on board 52 x 40
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 3,000
80 KATHLEEN BROWNE
1905 - 2007
Grizel Baird Oil on canvas 50 x 40
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
81 KATHLEEN BROWNE
1905 - 2007
The Cellist, Portugal Oil on board 50 x 33
Signed
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
Kathleen Browne is remembered as a gifted art teacher and talented artist. She was born in New Zealand in 1905. Her mother was an opera singer and her father a journalist. After completing studies at Canterbury College in Christchurch she taught art throughout the 1920s before heading to London in 1932. She enrolled at Chelsea School of Art, honing her skills in life and portrait art, etching and engraving. During the war she taught at a number of schools and the Royal Holloway College and worked for the BBC. She nearly lost an eye while
helping fight a blaze, caused by a German bomb, on the roof of a friend’s house. She married fellow artist Marian Kratochwil in 1961. He helped her run her Chelsea art school and accompanied her on many trips abroad, where they painted and visited art galleries. Kathleen’s early influences included Rembrandt, who, her husband said, she fell in love with. “Her early etchings were influenced by that master,” he wrote in a book about her life. “Her fellow students used to call her ‘Mrs Rembrandt’.” Among her pupils was a young actress, Joan Collins.
In 1979 Kathleen retired. She moved to Hampstead and concentrated on her own work. She died in 2007 at the age of 101. Author and biographer Tim Jeal, a pupil of Kathleen’s, writes: “She was a gifted teacher and wonderful artist. In the mid1990s Kathleen began to lose her sight – a terrible misfortune for an artist – but she never expressed bitterness or self-pity, remaining serene and generous-hearted to the end.”
1847 - 1905
Settlers Cottage near Mt Aspiring
Oil on canvas 45 x 34
Signed & dated 1876
ESTIMATE
$1,000 - 2,000
83 JOHN
1886 - 1965
Parisian Facade c. 1926 -7
Oil on canvas 38.5 x 44
Signed
ESTIMATE
$2,000 - 4,000
82 JAMES PEELE
WEEKS
1941 - 2011
Wormwood Oil on canvas 41 x 51
Signed & dated 1970
ESTIMATE
$1,500 - 2,500
Australia 1868 - 1933
Bride with Bouquet
Watercolour 38 x 34
Signed
ESTIMATE
$700 - 1,000
85 PERCY FREDERICK SEATON SPENCE
84 SYLVIA SIDDELL
A D Blake
This painting depicts the entrance to the Grand Canal with the Customs House and Santa Maria Della Salute Basilica. In the foreground we see a small ‘straight stemmed’ yawl and a traditional bragozzo lug sailed fishing boat. Further in the background is a trabaccolo, a traditional sailing cargo vessel of Venice, trying to ‘tack out’ of the Grand Canal in light winds.
A light breeze creates ‘catspaws’ on the water and the warm sunlight on the vessels and buildings is reflected in the calm water. The misty conditions gives a softening effect to the scene.
On view in the gallery
Misty Morning Venice c.1890 (detail) - Painted 2014 Oil on canvas 61 x 91 cm
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