Auction Announcement - Warwick & Kitty Brown Collection

Announcing The Warwick & Kitty Brown Collection

Announcing The Warwick & Kitty Brown Collection

Season’s Greetings

Warwick and Kitty Brown started collecting New Zealand contemporary art in the mid-1960s, acquiring many works which are now regarded as modernist masterpieces. Curated over a 50-year period, their survey collection of more than 300 works spans the breadth of modern and contemporary practice and comprises examples by our most highly celebrated artists. The Warwick and Kitty Brown Collection was formed through a remarkably creative and productive period from which emerged a new generation of artists, dealers and intellectuals. Warwick’s involvement in Auckland’s art scene through this period stimulated his interest in art and, ultimately, his vocation as an evangelist for New Zealand contemporary art.

Throughout, Warwick contributed as an arts writer, writing several books on contemporary art, a dealer, a columnist, a lecturer, an adviser to collectives, a collector and a commentator.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season from the team at Mossgreen-Webb’s.

As the year draws to a close we would like to thank all those who supported us in our first year under new ownership.

We will close for the holiday period at 12 noon on Thursday 22 December and will re-open in the New Year on Monday 16 January.

The Warwick & Kitty Brown Collection is to be sold in its entirety, over two days: 17 and 18 May 2017.

Viewings will be held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Overleaf, left to right Don Binney, La Chute D’Kare, Pureora: Last Flight of the Kokako, 1979, oil on board, 2110mm x 910mm Milan Mrkusich, Construction of Green (small), 1982, acrylic polymer, coloured pencil, crayon on hardboard, 1220mm x 894mm.

Ralph Hotere, Aurora, 1980, acrylic on corrugated iron, wood, 2460mm x 800mm.

Max Gimblett, Sengai-Eggs, 1985–1986, acrylic polymer on Belgium linen on shaped stretcher, 380mm x 380mm (square), 380mm x 440mm (triangle), 380mm diameter (circle).

Ian Scott, Six Mini Skirts, 1968, oil on stretched canvas, 1720mm x 1710mm.

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