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The Sally Hunt Collection 6:30pm Tuesday 7 November 2017

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The Sally Hunt Collection 6:30pm Tuesday 7 November 2017

Sally Hunt is a passionate supporter of the arts community in Nelson, and previously in the United States. She is currently Patron of The Suter Art Gallery, Te Aratoi o Whakatu. Sally and her late husband, Robert, initiated the gallery’s successful education program and she actively sponsors their acquisitions program. Sally is also involved in other local art initiatives, including the Arthouse Installation Project which offers an opportunity for emerging artists to design, create and exhibit their work. Sally was a friend and supporter of the late Jane Evans 1946 - 2012. This auction presents the most diverse and interesting offering of her work ever seen at auction. These paintings, along with Sally’s other New Zealand and International artworks, make for an interesting catalogue whilst presenting unique buying opportunities.

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3 November

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4 November

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5 November

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6 November

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7 November

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Invitation

Please join us for a discussion of the artist’s work

by John Coley, author of Jane Evans, Haszard Press, 1997 Sunday 5 November 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Refreshments

Learn more about the life of artist Jane Evans RSVP Luke Davies luke@artcntr.co.nz

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Important & Rare

27 NOVEMBER 2017

With sales of $2.1 million, several records

Important & Rare auctions are the proven,

were attained at August’s Important & Rare

pre-eminent sale category for major works

auction. A Louis John Steele of Sir John Logan

of art offered for sale in New Zealand. These

Campbell fetched $425,000. C F Goldie’s Time

auctions take place three times annually. As

Tells fetched the highest price of the evening

we fast approach our 50th year in business,

when it sold for $440,000. Record prices were

experience continues to equal results. 2014

again achieved for a work by Felix Kelly which

saw Important & Rare auctions realise five of

went for $24,000 along with a bronze by Paul

New Zealand’s top ten auction prices. The

Beadle which fetched $31,000. A record $3,400

following year saw new records set with the

was bid for H I Babbage Mending the Nets.

two top prices in Auckland achieved. With the

Frances Hodgkins was well represented in this

addition of the record $1.377 million paid for a

sale, with four of her works on offer. Mother

C F Goldie in April’s 2016 sale, International Art

& Child made $70,000, Corner of the Woods

Centre achieved the three highest art auction

fetched $50,000, Dutch Harbour fetched

prices in New Zealand’s history. Due to an

$45,000 and Farm Piece fetched $42,500.

appreciative, and greatly valued clientele of nationwide and international buyers and sellers we look forward to breaking new ground.

Charles Frederick Goldie A Happy Thought, Te Aitu Te Irikau, a Noted Arawa Chieftainess, 1922 Oil on canvas 26.5 x 21.5 Estimate $240,000 - 280,000

Consign Today Contact: Richard Thomson Ph. +64 9 379 4010 M. 0274 751 071 E. richard@artcntr.co.nz

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The Wendy Pharazyn & the late Bruce DahL Collection

Michael Hight Wairoa 2013 - from Rivers Series Oil on linen 40 x 50cm

WELLINGTON COLLECTORS

AUCTION FEBRUARY 2018

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Jeff Thomson New Zealand Laser cut corrugated copper 130 x 40 Signed & dated 2003 $3,000 - 4,000

2 Jeff Thomson Kete

Woven copper sculpture 37 x 45 x 8

$1,500 - 2,500

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3 Peter Siddell Window

Pastel on paper 32.5 x 49.5 Signed

$7,000 - 10,000

4 Terry Stringer Untitled

Bronze sculpture 26 x 5

Signed & dated 2009

$1,500 - 2,500

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John Shotton Parker Plain Song, Estuary Evening Oil on linen 122 x 91 Signed & dated 1999 $4,000 - 6,000

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Terry Stringer Black Rose Bronze light fixture 12 x 12 $1,500 - 2,000 7

Terry Stringer Daphne Leaves Bronze sculpture 20.3 x 25.4 Inscribed verso $2,500 - 3,500

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8 William James Reed

In the Cradle

Oil on board 38 x 47 Signed

$4,000 - 6,000

Born in Christchurch Reed attended the Canterbury College of Art in the 1930’s with fellow artists Archibald Nicoll, Richard Wallwork, Olivia Spencer Bower and Russell Clark. Reed had a highly original vision of the New Zealand landscape and his work differed vastly from that of his contemporaries. He saw the landscape as lush, productive and fertile and he portrayed it with strong colours and forms.

Reed was strongly influenced by the works of his tutor, John Weeks, his friend and colleague Rita Angus and the British painter Paul Nash. His recognition of the ideological and spiritual crisis facing humanity in the 1930’s resulted in works such as Armageddon and Visitation now in the collection of the Reed Estate. These works have a prophetic quality, pre-dating the bombing of Guernica by some months.

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At the conclusion of his studies Reed worked for a firm producing pictorial advertising for the movies. Weekends were spent roaming the Port Hills and cycling the Canterbury Plains in search of subject matter. Apart from serving with the Field Ambulance Corp in the Pacific Zone from 1942-45, his life was spent entirely in Otago.

Reed’s first solo exhibition was held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, his intense passion for the land and its coastline was spiritually as well as emotionally charged. From today’s perspective he is seen as one of the most adventurous members of the School of South Island Painters. Reed taught at the Dunedin School of Art for more than thirty years, a respected and popular tutor, he retired in 1973 continuing to paint till the end of his life. His work is held in major galleries throughout New Zealand.

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9 William James Reed

Lakeside Farm

Oil on board 44 x 57 Signed

$3,000 - 5,000

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10 Cecil Fletcher Kelly

Canterbury Landscape

Oil on board 44 x 56 Signed

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11 John Weeks

Old Curiosity Shop, Edinburgh

Oil on board 39.5 x 49.5 Signed

Certificate of Authenticity

signed by Allan Swinton & Hilda E O’Connor affixed verso

$5,000 - 8,000

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Peter McIntyre Asian Woman in Coolie Hat Oil on canvas 70 x 54 $6,000 - 10,000

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Glenys Brookbanks Brown and Green Tempera on gesso on board 72 x 54.5 Signed & dated 1994 verso $800 - 1,200

Provenance:

Claybrook Gallery label affixed verso

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Max Gimblett Bowl, Gary’s Blue Gesso, epoxy, pigment, silver leaf, shellac / wood panel quatrefoil 105 x 105 Signed, inscribed & dated 2008 $30,000 - 40,000

Provenance:

Gow Langsford Gallery, label affixed verso

Bowl reveals the rich essence of Max Gimblett’s practice. Unlike many of the artist’s other quatrefoil works, its painted surface does not reflect a series of smooth linear curvatures or precisely-cast splatters of paint, but rather, a poetic chaos where varying depths of blue intermingle.

The quatrefoil is steeped in art history and religious iconography, and contains layers of culturally complex meaning. Gimblett’s engagement with it as a form both implies and negates the notion of “wholeness”, and Bowl serves this end by transforming the act of viewing into one of spiritual and conscious awareness.

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Within the confines of this sacred exchange, the viewer is invited to enter into a meditative state.

In one sense, this work is concerned with the fundamental nature of painting itself: its gesturality brilliantly explores the distinction between physical and painted form. At the same time, however, it compels awareness of our own gaze, and there is a palpable sense of expectancy to this act of looking. As we find ourselves appreciating the perfection and completeness of that which is already present, we are also anticipating the continuation of form from beyond the edges of where brushstrokes have been interrupted.

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Sir Toss Woollaston Tasman Bay

Over the course of his career, Toss Woollaston completed several works depicting Tasman Bay. The final of these is a sublime oil on canvas from the early 1990s, which stands out as an absolute gem of the artist’s late period of production.

Woollaston was 80 years old when he painted this as a gift for his partner Anne.

The work’s treatment of colour and perspective is captivating. Herein, we encounter an upwards vision of surging cerulean lyricism, one which hints towards the ethereal and seems to whisper something of the past 60 years of painting.

Rejecting the panoramic quality and sprawling aerial perspective he so frequently drew on, the artist has instead opted to poise the viewer in front of, almost on the edge of, this painting.

For Woollaston, this approach is one of relative restraint: it brings into focus a tightly-constructed composition and leads the eye towards the painting’s outer limit: the furthest point of the bay where sky and sea converge.

When considered alongside previous depictions of this subject matter, such as the 1975 work Tasman Bay 1928, this painting may be read as something of a nostalgic stepping-back for Woollaston; a conscious retreat from the flawed, raw masses of land and topography in which he had immersed himself for decades. It is also interesting to note the decision to deploy oil on canvas for this work, rather than his preferred medium of board.

More than anything, this painting is an ode to the artist’s enduring relationship with the land.

On the subject of Tasman Bay 1928, Woollaston wrote of how, I tried to paint my feelings about the Nelson landscape in that year, when I first came here. Certainly, this centrality of emotion which resonates in this work also.

Quoted p. 388 Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters, J Trevelyan, Te Papa Press, Wellington 2004

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Toss Woollaston Tasman Bay From Nelson Watercolour 27 x 37 Signed & dated 1971 $3,000 - 5,000

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Tasman Bay

Oil on canvas 152.4 x 178.6 Signed

$100,000 - 150,000 Provenance:

Mahana Gallery, Woollaston Estate

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Jan Nigro The Child Oil on board 89 x 56 Signed & dated 1949 $8,000 - 12,000

Illustrated:

p. 57 Apple for the Teacher, Jan Nigro,

Bateman, 1996

p. 51 Recipient of Paintings of the Year,

Friends of the National Gallery of Victoria 1996 Provenance:

Jane Evans Artist Trust Collection label affixed verso

Dunbar Sloane, 28 April 1998

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Jeff Thomson Doodle No. 1 Corrugated Copper - 330 x 60 $8,000 - 12,000

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Jeff Thomson Doodle No. 2 Corrugated Copper - 330 x 60 $8,000 - 12,000

Please note: These two works by Jeff Thomson may be viewed in the front garden of Sally Hunt’s residence at Wakefield Quay Nelson.

Please contact International Art Centre info@internationalartcentre.co.nz for viewing information and appointments.

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21 Mervyn Williams Untitled

Acrylic on paper 62.5 x 50

Signed & dated 1983

$1,500 - 2,500

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Neil Dawson Plate 1 From Old/New/Borrowed/Blue Painted steel sculpture 99 x 118 x 10 Signed & dated 2008 $12,000 - 16,000

Provenance:

Exhibited at Milford Galleries 2008

Tony Lane Leg with Representations of Infinity Shagmetal and oil on gesso panel 183.5 x 29.5 Signed, inscribed & dated 1989 verso $5,000 - 8,000

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International Artworks Lots 23 - 42

23 Hans Hoffman

American 1880 - 1966

Pink and Green

Oil on cardboard 23 x 23 Signed

$35,000 - 45,000

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Original Andre’ Emmerich, New York and Hokin Gallery Florida labels affixed verso

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George Rickey American 1907 - 2002 Three Lines Up III Stainless steel sculpture, edition 1/3, 99.06 x 8.9 Signed & dated 1989 $30,000 - 50,000

Indiana born George Rickey added time and motion to his sculpture. His kinetic sculptures are in motion around the world, activated by indoor air currents or powered, outdoors, by the whim of the wind. In their silent, graceful movements his hypnotic sculptures reveal the play of natural forces – such as gravity and wind – upon works of art that have carefully considered physics to control the time and limits of their movements.

They are, indeed, poetry in motion: once elegiac totems to the passage of time; now also markers of time their maker passed in our midst.

His work can be found in many American and international public institutions including the Indiana University Art Museum. In New Zealand there are two major works in the Gibbs Farm Collection Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyratory Up (V) and Column of Four Squares Eccentric Gyratory (III).

Sally acquired this work in Los Angeles c. 1990.

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25 Elsworth Kelly

American 1923 - 2015

Orange and Black

Screenprint on Arjomari paper,

edition 64/250, 58 x 69 Signed

$3,000 - 5,000

26 Elsworth Kelly

American 1923 - 2015

Untitled, 1983

Lithograph, edition 143/250 73.6 x 104 Signed

$3,000 - 5,000

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27 Andy Warhol

American 1928 - 1987

Sidewalk, 1983

Screenprint, edition 143/250, 76.2 x 113 Signed

$10,000 - 15,000

Exhibited: Eight by Eight to Celebrate The Temporary Contemporary 25 October – 26 November 1983 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

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Jose Maria Sicilia Spanish b. 1954 Grey Flower Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 Signed & inscribed dated 1987 verso $10,000 - 15,000

Jose Maria Sicilia was born in Madrid and grew up under the Franco dictatorship. He spent his holidays in the monastery town of Escorial near the Sierra de Guadarrama. In 1975 he joined the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 1980 the artist moved to Paris, where he first exhibited, and in 1985 relocated to New York, where he became a close friend of composer John Cage. At this time, his early work displayed an expressionist tendency.

During the 1980s he was hailed as one of the most prestigious young Spanish artists. He is known for his paintings of nature with subjects including landscapes, insects and flowers.

Sicilia has spent considerable time travelling in Tangiers, Syria, Egypt, Morocco and India and his work is inspired by these sojourns. He is renowned for his unusual techniques such as the use of wax with lithography.

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When reviewing an exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art, NYC, the New York Times referred to Jose Maria Sicilia’s paintings as ... refined and very seductive. His waxen surfaces create delicate plays of light and shadow.

Objects appear like auras or after-images through translucent veneers.

Sicilia’s work has been exhibited at Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 2000 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen 2000, Venice Biennale (1986), Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria and Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt. He has held multiple exhibitions in Japan, first in 1988 at galleries in Nagasaki, Kyoto, Tokyo and most recently in Fukushima, in the wake of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake in the area. In 1989 Sicilia received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

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Jose Maria Sicilia Spanish b. 1954 Red Flower Acrylic on canvas 81.3 x 81.3 Signed & inscribed dated 1987 verso $8,000 - 12,000

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John Okulick American b. 1947 Crosspoint Bronze 56 x 45 x 45 Signed & dated 1991 $4,000 - 6,000

Reference:

Transformation in Perspective:

The Sculpture of John Okulick

Delaware Art Museum,

February 15 - March 31, 1991 :

Palm Springs Desert Museum,

March 16 - May 26, 1991

John Okulick was born in New York City and is an arts graduate from the Universities of California, Santa Barbara and California at Irvine. He resides in southern California. Whilst Okulick has worked on numerous public commissions, most of them in metal for outdoor installation, there is a demand for his smaller scale works which complement domestic and commercial spaces.

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New forms and shapes continue to enliven the artist’s pieces. The sculptures have movement, energy, dynamism and a sense of play. The artist writes: My sculpture is a platform from which the viewer can take a ride .... a flight of fancy or a journey through a vast open space, toward a feeling of freedom.

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Kenneth Snelson American 1927 - 2016 Able Charlie, 1975 Aluminium steel & wire sculpture 101 x 99 x 89 $10,000 - 15,000

Provenance: Purchased in New York City circa 1986

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Alexander Liberman American 1927 - 2016 Untitled Painted steel sculpture 66 x 61 x 61 Signed & dated 1985 on base $10,000 - 15,000

Provenance: Purchased in New York City Circa 1986

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British 1903 - 1975

Itea, 1971

Lithograph, edition 38/60, 58 x 81 Signed

$4,000 - 6,000

Printed by Curwen Studio, London 1970 Published by Marlborough Fine Art, London

Inspired by her 1954 trip to Greece with friend and patron, Margaret Gardiner. Hepworth created The Aegean Suite in 1971 and infused the works with references to Greek culture and the Greek landscape.

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Bedri Rahmi EyĂźboÄ&#x;lu Turkish 1911 - 1975 Vieille Istanbull Mixed media on canvas 68 x 69 Signed & dated 1961 $3,000 - 5,000

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Richard X Zawitz American b. 1946 Tangle, 1981 Vintage plastic chrome sculpture 30 x 50 MOCA edition $300 - 500

Provenance:

Purchased from MOMA, NYC, between

1985 - 1989

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Charles Arnoldi American b. 1946 Wine Bucket and Stand Bronze sculpture 91.4 x 50 x 30.5 Signed & dated 1992 on base $6,000 - 8,000 Charles Arnoldi American b. 1946 Untitled 1990 Oil paint on rag paper 52 x 44 Signed & dated 1990 $1,500 - 2,500

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38 David Hockney British b. 1937

My Pool and Terrace

Lithograph, edtion 143/250, 73.6 x 106.6

Signed & dated 1983

$8,000 - 12,000

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American b. 1946 Untitled

Oil on five Taitu Emilio Bergamin

dinner plates 31 x 31 (each)

All signed & dated 1992

$2,000 - 3,000

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Edward Ruscha American b. 1937 City Spot Edition 95 Lithograph, edition 49/95, 38 x 52 Signed & dated 1992 $2,000 - 3,000

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Vasa Mihich American b. 1933 Coloured Cubes Ten acrylic cubes 5 x 5 x 5 (each) One signed & dated 1991 $1,000 - 1,500

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Robert Graham American 1938 - 2008 MOCA Torso Bronze sculpture 27.9 x 11.5 x 11.5 Signed on underside of base $2,000 - 3,000

From Robert Graham’s series of bronze nudes created for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This outstanding work is an excellent example of the sculptor’s best known subject, the female nude. In MOCA Torso Robert Graham’s ability to blend classic forms with a contemporary practice is clearly evident.

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Jane Evans 1946 - 2012 Lots 43 - 100 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 attend 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 lifetime’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

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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 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.

Sally and Jane were close friends - Sally was her largest supporter.

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Jane Evans Madonna and Child Acrylic on board 58 x 45 Signed & dated 1977 $20,000 -30,000

This tenderly rendered painting, Madonna and Child is known to have been Jane Evans personal favourite. Sally acquired the work in 2006, prior to that it had been held in a private collection since 1977.

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Jane Evans Orchard Landscape (Mapua) Oil on board 45.4 x 60 Signed & dated 1977 $4,000 - 6,000

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Jane Evans Four Minutes Past Five Acrylic on board 76.8 x 38 Signed & dated 1973 $8,000 - 12,000

Illustrated

p. 31 Jane Evans,

John Coley, Hazard press, 1997

October 1977 New Zealand Listener review, art commentator John Roberts perceptively sums up the effect and relationship between Jane Evans and Philip Clairmont.

Compare her works with Philip Clairmont's, for example - their themes are very similar.

Like Evans, Clairmont develops his ideas from the immediate world. A window frame, a clothesline, a table are enough to set him at work. Clairmont and Evans both employ a style clearly derived from the conventions of postimpressionism and expressionism. How then is it possible for them to be so wildly different in their impact? It is partly a matter of colour.

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cold greens and blues on a sombre ground.

But it is more than that. Clairmont's objects are pawns in a game of asserting visual authority first over the object — the rectangular piece of canvas or hessian — and then over the viewer.

Evans couldn't be less interested in power. Her paintings are like old friends, familiar even at first viewing. A Clairmont on the wall would brace up everyone in its immediate vicinity each time they encountered it. An Evans would relax and please. Some would say that was in a certain sense a less important function. I cannot agree.

I admire both the power of Clairmont and the comforting warmth of Evans.

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Jane Evans Boy Crouching No. 4 Mixed media on paper 54 x 37 Signed & dated 1974 $2,000 - 3,000

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Jane Evans Old Man with a Newspaper from a London Tube Acrylic on board 75 x 50 Signed & dated 1971 $7,000 - 10,000

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Jane Evans Girl in a Red Dress Gouache on paper 63 x 41 Signed & dated 1985 $3,000 - 5,000

Jane Evans The Blue Overcoat Acrylic on board 64 x 60 Signed & dated 1974 $7,000 - 10,000

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Jane Evans Haberdashery Assistant Acrylic on board 58.2 x 43 Signed & dated 1974 $10,000 - 15,000

Provenance:

Purchased directly from the artist Illustrated

p. 6 & 49 Jane Evans, John Coley,

Hazard press, 1997

Haberdashery Assistant hanging in the artist’s home.

Her inclination towards gentle satire is clearly shown in a painting she made after a visit to a store where she came across a young shop worker enjoying a hard boiled egg for lunch.

Haberdashery Assistant caught the red-headed woman in the act of conspicuous consumption, her face contorted, one hand on her hip as she watched for an approaching customer, The

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apparent simplicity of execution, the light touch of wit and the everyday subject matter belie the value of such images in a time when genre painting is rare. p. 48 & 50 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard press, 1997

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Jane Evans Mr Mog Edwards Under Milkwood Series Acrylic on board 75 x 60 Signed, inscribed & dated 1975 $6,000 - 8,000

Mr Mog Edwards is a character from the Dylan Thomas radio play, Under Milkwood. Jane painted the entire cast for a major exhibition in 1975. This was an ambitious undertaking and made a strong impression.

Under Milkwood was a stunning series. Theatrical in their impact, these forceful, vigorous paintings interpreted Thomas’s glorious array of slightly crazed villagers in sympathetic, vivid images.

Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard Press, 1997

Jane Evans pictured in front of three works from the Under Milkwood Series. The series was exhibited at International Art Centre in 1989 resulting in a near sell out.

Mr Mog Edwards – The draper, enamoured of Myfanwy Price. Their romance, however, is restricted strictly to the letters they write one another and their interactions in their dreams.

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Jane Evans Drawing for Reclining Nude Acrylic and wash 54 x 36 Signed & dated 1973 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Still Life and Seascape Oil on board 60 x 74 Signed & dated 1976 $10,000 - 14,000

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Jane Evans Poppies, Feb ‘82, No. 13 Flower Growing Series Watercolour on blotting paper 44 x 57 Signed & dated 1982 $4,000 - 6,000

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Jane Evans From My Window Acrylic on paper 46 x 57 Signed & dated 1977 $4,500 - 6,500

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Jane Evans My Garden at Tasman Street Watercolour 52 x 75 Signed & dated December 1978 $8,000 - 12,000

Jane’s Tasman Street garden was a source of continuing pleasure. It’s Spring blossomings gave her renewed inspiration. She completed many watercolours here which included her Red Poppies, Flowers Growing and Under the Pergola series.

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Jane Evans Tasman Street garden, Nelson 65

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Old Man with Pipe, 1981 also known as

Portrait of the Artist’s Father in a Blue Cap

Acrylic on board 66 x 56 Signed

$7,000 - 10,000

Illustrated p. 67 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard press, 1997

Jane Evans father Dr George Evans (1897 - 1995) An old style family doctor

Jane enjoyed being with her father who was a remarkable person. Although projecting an aura of quiet unhurried professionalism, an image heightened by his frequent stroking of and puffing on his pipe, he was in fact an energetic man involved in a range of community affairs. Besides his viola playing in the Nelson orchestra, he was at various times surgeon for the St John Ambulance Brigade, Medical Advisor to the Nelson Crippled Children Society and a supervisor of the National Marriage Guidance Council.

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People of every description became the subjects of Jane’s art. Sometimes an elderly gentleman, depicted with a flourish of painterly strokes, impasto over glaze, tweedy textures suggested with a few confidently applied slashes, the colours muted, descriptive of mature solidity of character, is very much an evocation of her father. p. 66 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard press, 1997

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Jane Evans Girl on a Blue Ground Oil on canvas 50 x 39.5 Signed & dated 1982 $4,000 - 6,000

This work features in a YouTube video Jane Evans A Celebration of Colour www.youtube.com/watch?v=96x5MnbSC5M

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Flowers and figures continued to be the principal subjects of Jane’s output through the 1980s.

At the invitation of Denis Cohn, she sent a work, Inside the Garden IV, one of her first poppy paintings, to a group exhibition, Nine New Zealand Artists, in Auckland. A large, vibrant gouache in reds and ultramarine blue, it caused much interest and was immediately purchased.

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Jane Evans Mixed Vase on Tablecloth Gouache on paper 56 x 74 Signed & dated 1984 $4,000 - 6,000

far away as Dunedin. Cohn commented that he had never experienced an opening like it and joked that he would wear a crash helmet when the doors opened. Nervously excited by the buzz that foreshadowed the opening, Jane had positioned herself at a coffee bar around the corner from the gallery. She had asked a friend, Maunu Stephens, to ‘scout’ for her. Moments after the gallery opening hour he appeared to tell her that everything had been sold. That evening Jane attended the official opening, amazed and elated at the sellout result. p. 72 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard press, 1997

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Jane Evans Still Life with Lemons Watercolour 59 x 76.5 Signed & dated 1989 $4,000 - 6,000

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Jane Evans Flag Irises Gouache on paper 53 x 75 Signed & dated 1985 $7,000 - 10,000 71

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Jane Evans Garden Breeze II Watercolour 56 x 75 Signed & dated 1986 $3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans Kite Day Summer No. 2 Gouache on paper 60 x 79 Signed & dated 1982 $3,000 - 5,000

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Girl in Pastels Watercolour

& gouache 76 x 57

Signed & dated 1985

$4,000 - 6,000

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A Jug with

Iceland Poppies Watercolour

& gouache 60 x 40

Signed & dated 1983

$3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans We Two - Jane’s Garden Studio Oil on canvas 70 x 83 Signed & dated 2009 $8,000 - 12,000

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Gouache on paper 60 x 40

Signed & dated 1992

$4,000 - 6,000

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Jane Evans Je Ne Sais Quoi!

Gouache and watercolour 60.5 x 40 Signed & dated 2008 $4,000 - 6,000 77

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Gouache on paper 36 x 74

Signed & dated 1982

$4,000 - 6,000

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Jane Evans Blue on a Kilm Gouache on paper 56 x 75 Signed & dated 1985 $6,000 - 9,000

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Jane Evans Beverley with Pinot Noir Gouache on paper 76 x 58 Signed & dated 1991 $6,000 - 8,000

Illustrated p. 94 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard Press, 1997

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Jane Evans In the Garden Watercolour 58 x 76 Signed & dated 1989 $4,000 - 6,000

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Gouache & Watercolour 40.5 x 30.5

Signed & dated 1999

$2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Irises, 2008 Oil on canvas 30 x 25 Signed & dated 2008 $4,500 - 6,500

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Jane Evans Boy in a Cap Gouache and watercolour 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2009 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Young Girl with Posey Watercolour & gouache 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2011 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Girl with Plaits Watercolour & gouache 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2009 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Girl in a Blue Hat Gouache & watercolour 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2009 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans West Coaster Acrylic on paper 55 x 37 Signed & dated 1982 $3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans Girl in a Floral Dress Watercolour 76 x 58 Signed & dated 1991 $4,000 - 6,000

81 Jane Evans Dorje

Acrylic on Arches paper 67.5 x 45

Signed & dated 1990

$3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans Iceland Poppies - Chair & Vase Watercolour & gouache 80 x 60.5 Signed & dated 2010 $3,000 - 5,000

Illustrated:

p. 73 Jane Evans,

John Coley, Hazard press, 1997 85

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Jane Evans Girl in a Red Hat with Plaits Watercolour & gouache 46 x 36 Signed & dated 2010 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Coffee at Morrison Street Watercolour & gouache 60.5 x 40 Signed & dated 2011 $3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans Girl in a Hat Watercolour & gouache 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2008 $2,500 - 3,500

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Jane Evans Young Love Watercolour & gouache 60.5 x 40 Signed & dated 2000 $4,000 - 6,000

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Ink on paper 26 x 20

Signed & dated 1977

$1,800 - 2,500

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Jane Evans Well Here She Goes Lithograph, edition A/P, 46 x 57 Signed, inscribed & dated 1989 $600 - 1,000

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From the Sketchbook, Doodling

Ink on paper 43 x 34

Signed & dated 1972

$1,800 - 2,500 90

Jane Evans Untitled, 1990 Brush and ink on paper 39 x 29 Signed & dated 1990 $1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Camp Cambridge Brush & ink on paper 57 x 38 Signed & dated 1980 $1,800 - 2,600

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Jane Evans Whoops, What a Short Run Lithograph, edition A/P, 53 x 38 Signed, inscribed & dated 1989 $600 - 1,000

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Jane Evans Boy, 2002 Brush & Ink on paper 40 x 30 Signed & dated 2002 $1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Untitled - Lady with Hat Brush and ink on paper 38 x 30 Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 $1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Untitled - Girl with Earrings Brush and ink on paper 38 x 30 Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 $1,750 - 2,250

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Brush and ink on paper 38 x 29

Signed, inscribed & dated 1990

$1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Blue Irises Watercolour & gouache 60.5 x 40 Signed & dated 2009 $3,000 - 5,000

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Jane Evans Untitled - Side Profile Brush and ink on paper 38 x 30 Signed, inscribed & dated 2002 $1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Untitled - Seated Lady Brush and ink on paper 38 x 30 Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 $1,750 - 2,250

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Jane Evans Untitled - Red & White Dress Brush and ink on paper 38 x 30 Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 $1,750 - 2,250

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Patricia France Flowers in a Black Pot Oil on board 37 x 31 Signed & dated 1987 $2,000 - 3,000

Provenance:

Purchased from International

Art Centre. February 2013

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Style of Sydney Lough Thompson Tunny Boats, Concarneau Oil on board 44 x 59 $1,500 - 2,500

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Lloyd Harwood The Little Bird Oil paintstick on board 22 x 34 Signed & dated 2010 $1,000 - 1,500

Provenance:

Purchased directly from the artist

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Anna Caselberg Composition in Green & Gold Watercolour 54 x 67 $800 - 1,200

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Untitled Figure

Oil on board 27 x 22 Signed

$1,500 - 2,500

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Madeline Child Tivets, 1999 Six ceramic each 28 x 28 (variable) $1,000 - 1,500

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Crater Lake Bowl

Glazed ceramic 50 x 50 x 12 Signed

$1,500 - 2,500

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Blue Bowl

Glazed ceramic 33 x 33 x 10 Signed

$1,500 - 2,500 109 Len Castle

Blue Pot Vase

Glazed ceramic 20 x 20 Signed

$1,000 - 1,500

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Austin Davies A Season of Sifted Sorrow v.15 Acrylic on board 23 x 19 Signed & dated 2003 $1,800 - 2,500

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Henryk Szydlowski Fish on a Platter Oil on canvas 91 x 82 Signed & dated 1980 $1,500 - 2,500

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Peter O’Hagan And Wallis Said to her Prince Gouache on paper 73 x 75 Signed & dated 1999 $3,000 - 5,000

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Peter O’Hagan Lunch in a Burgundy Vineyard Watercolour, gouache & gum 76 x 75 Signed & dated 1997 $3,000 - 5,000

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Craig Potton Paratiho Farm Six unique colour photographs 39 x 54 Note: Sally and her husband Robert developed Paratiho Farms and Lodge in the early 1990s. Sally sold it in 2008. $3,000 - 5,000 Leo John Meissner American 1895 - 1977 Marine Lace Wood engraving, edition 44/50, 26 x 20 Signed & inscribed $400 - 600

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Leo Bensemann Dancing Dwarf Wood Engraving 11.5 x 8.5 $800 - 1,200

Exhibited, Group Show, 1945

Illustrated: A Second Book of Leo

Bensemann’s Work, Caxton Press, 1952

Cover of the catalogue for Leo Bensemann’s

Retrospective Exhibition, Rue Pompalier

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Tony Lane The Harvest Oil on board 90 x 120 Sign & dated 1980 $1,500 - 2,500

118 Irvine Major

Boat Harbour

Watercolour 37 x 28.5 Signed

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119 Sally Barron

Faster or Greener

Oil on canvas 100 x 120 Signed

$2,000 - 3,000 Sally Barron’s Faster or Greener exhibition in 2016 explored solitary communion with nature and the sense that we are truly ourselves when isolated within it. Abandonment in the freest sense of the word and self containment are recurring themes for me. I like to alternate between the narrative and abstract. SB

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Deborah Croft Ship Series I Oil on canvas 100 x 80 $1,000 - 2,000

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Deborah Croft Ship Series II Oil on plywood 59.5 x 70 Signed & dated 2001 $1,000 - 2,000

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Crossing II

Acrylic on linen 60 x 90.5 Signed

$1,500 - 2,500

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Life was full of colour, and that was what I wanted to put down in my painting.

For Jane, flower paintings were excuses for using colour; flowers in all their varieties were simply colours on a palette in their combinations and various forms. They also satisfied her instinct for decorative painting, which would not only allow her to share her pleasure in sumptuous colours but also to express her feelings about flowers, thus echoing those of Emile Nolde, who wrote: The blossoming colours of flowers and the purity of those colours — I love them. I love flowers and their fate; shooting up, blooming, radiating, glowing, gladdening, bending, wilting, thrown away and dying.

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More reading on Jane Evans Jane Evans 1946 - 2012 Stuff.co.nz http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/7072419/Jane-Evans-1946-2012 Jane Evans New Zealand Artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Evans_(artist) School to restore forgotten Jane Evans painting - Nelson Mail http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/70732331/school-to-restore-forgotten-jane-evans-painting Home is where the art is: Jane Evans’ cottage of colour https://news.open2view.com/2013/03/12/home-is-where-the-art-is-jane-evans-cottage-of-colour/ The Suter Te Aratoi O Whakatō http://thesuter.org.nz/collection/ 105

Jane Evans Haberdashery Assistant hanging in the artist’s home.

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Index

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ARNOLDI C..........................36, 37, 39

FRANCE P..................................... 101

POTTON C..................................... 114

BARRON S..................................... 119

GIMBLETT M.................................... 14

REED W J....................................... 8, 9

BENSEMANN L.............................. 116

GRAHAM R..................................... 42

RICKEY GE...................................... 24

BROOKBANKS G............................ 13

HARWOOD L................................ 103

RUSCHA E....................................... 40

CASELBERG A............................... 104

HEPWORTH B.................................. 33

SICILLIA J M.............................. 28, 29

CASTLE L........................107, 108, 109

HOCKNEY D................................... 38

SIDDELL P.......................................... 3

CHANDLER L................................. 123

HOFFMAN H................................... 23

SNELSON K...................................... 31

CHILD M........................................ 106

KELLY C F......................................... 10

STRINGER T................................ 4, 6, 7

CROFT D............................... 121, 122

KELLY E...................................... 25, 26

SZYDLOWSKI H.............................. 111

DAVIES A....................................... 110

LANE T..................................... 20, 117

TAPPER G...................................... 105

DAWSON N..................................... 22

LIBERMAN A................................... 32

THOMPSON STYLE OF S L............. 102

EVANS J............43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,

MAJOR I................................ 118, 120

THOMSON J...................... 1, 2, 18, 19

........49, 50, 54, 63, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57,

MCINTYRE P.................................... 12

WARHOL A..................................... 27

....... 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,

MEISSNER L J ................................ 115

WEEKS J........................................... 11

........67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,

MIHICH V........................................ 41

WILLIAMS M.................................... 21

........76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,

NIGRO J.......................................... 17

WOOLLASTON T....................... 15, 16

.........85, 86, 87,89, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93,

Oâ•’HAGAN P.......................... 112, 133

ZAWITZ R X...................................... 35

...................94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100

OKULICK J....................................... 30

BEDRI RAHMI E............................... 33

PARKER J S........................................ 5

‘Life was full of colour, and that was what I wanted to put down in my painting.’

Jane Evans

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