Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
Directors: Grahame Chote, Richard Thomson & Frances Davies 272 PARNELL RD, AUCKLAND, PO BOX 37 344 TEL (09) 379 4010 FAX (09) 307 3421 www.fineartauction.co.nz
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Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
Viewing times Thursday
31 July
9:00am - 5:30pm
Friday
1 August
9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday
2 August
11:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday
3 August
11:00am - 4:00pm
Monday
4 August
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5 August
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272 PARNELL RD, AUCKLAND, PO BOX 37 344 AUCKLAND 1151 NEW ZEALAND TEL (09) 379 4010 FAX (09) 307 3421 www.fineartauction.co.nz
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Ralph Hotere $36,340
Edward Fristrom $10,550
John Gully $60,050
J Keulemans $23,450
Peter Siddell $170,000
Ralph Hotere $38,880
C F Goldie $189,350
Frances Hodgkins $38,100
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Olivia Spencer Bower $9,380
Robert Ellis $12,600
Felix Kelly $18,170
Gordon Walters $37,500
Raymond Ching $53,900
A F Nicoll $6,900
Ralph Hotere $43,900
Alvin Pankhurst $55,100
Len Castle $9,380
Michael Smither $31,650
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Important, Early & Rare
2013 HIGHLIGHTS Peter McIntyre $25,200
Trevor Moffitt $11,100
C F Goldie $234,500
Mike Petre $16,415
Karl Maughan $31,650
Evelyn Page $18,760
Charles Frederick Goldie Kawhena Sold $732,800 November 2013
Record price achieved for painting at auction in New Zealand
Buck Nin 19,900
Jane Evans $19,900
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Forthcoming auction: Selected works from the
Fletcher Trust Collection
SEVENTY SEVEN WORKS FROM NEW ZEALAND’S LARGEST CORPORATE COLLECTION
Wednesday 10 September 2014
Catalogue available 21 August - Catalogue online from 21 August www.fineartauction.co.nz - On view daily from Monday 1st September
MILAN MRKUSICH Meta Grey - Light Series, 1970 Oil on canvas 112 x 84cm
GRETCHEN ALBRECHT Untitled, 1974
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Watercolour 111 x 74cm
RHONA HASZARD Still Life: Magnolias, 1927 Oil on board 40 x 32cm
GORDON WALTERS Untitled Acrylic on canvas 490 x 610
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Contemporary & Modern Art
Riduan Tomkins fetched $5,860 February 2014
October 2014
Peter Stichbury fetched $18,760 May 2014
Terry Stringer fetched $23,450 April 2014
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Important, Early & Rare
November 2014
Charles F Goldie fetched $352,000 April 2014 International Art Centre’s premiere sale category comfortably holds New Zealand’s highest art auction record following the recent sale of C F Goldie’s Kawhena $732,800. April 2014 Important, Early & Rare auction highlights included Colin McCahon’s Landscape 1959 fetching $334,000 and Goldie’s Atama Paparangi selling for $352,000, a sale total of over $1.6 million and a sell rate of 85% including post sale negotiation.
Consign Today
Richard Thomson richard@artcntr.co.nz Toll Free 0800 800 322 or +64 9 3794010 Colin McCahon fetched $334,000 April 2014
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PETER SIDDELL
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Auckland since 1971
1935 - 2011 House on Fawn Hill Oil on board 60 x 60 Signed & dated 1971 ESTIMATE $5,000 - 8,000
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PATRICIA FRANCE
PROVENANCE Collection of Jane Evans (1946 - 2012)
1911 - 1995 Two Figures on Beach Oil on board 43 x 55 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER (BILL) SUTTON
1917 - 2000 Marlborough Sounds Oil on canvas 44 x 49.5 Signed ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500
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EDWARD BULLMORE
1933 - 1978 Hawke No 7 1977 Mixed media on paper 40 x 55 Signed, inscribed & dated 1977 on backing board verso ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500 ESTIMATE Private Collection, Rotorua
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CHARLES TOLE
1935 - 2011 Waikato Landscape Oil on board 29 x 34 Signed & dated 1945 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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J S PARKER
b. 1944 Plain Song The Yellow Ladder Oil on heavy paper 100 x 70 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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DICK FRIZZELL
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RALPH HOTERE
b. 1943 Old Boots Oil on board 41 x 44 Signed, inscribed & dated 1/8/86 ESTIMATE $6,000 - 8,000
1931 - 2013 Wiremu Kingi Whiti to Hapurona- Rangiaohia 1861 Watercolour 56 x 40 Signed ESTIMATE $18,000 - 25,000
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DON BINNEY
1940 - 2012 Effigy / Landfords Endeavour to Firth of Thamess Mixed media on arches resin 50.5 x 66.5 Signed & dated 1989 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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GARTH TAPPER
ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
ILLUSTRATED p. 94 Garth Tapper New Zealand Painter Tapper Art 1998
1927 - 1999 The Jehovah’s Witness Visit Oil on panel 34 x 37 Signed Inscribed verso
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JANE EVANS
1940 - 2012 Dorje Acrylic on Arches paper 67.5 x 50 Signed & dated 1990 ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500 Illustrated p. 73 Jane Evans, John Coley, Hazard Press 1997
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DON BINNEY
1940 - 2012 Maungakiekie Oil and acrylic on canvasboard 51 x 61 Signed & dated 1998 ESTIMATE $20,000 - 30,000
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ELIZABETH REES
ESTIMATE $12,000 - 14,000
PROVENANCE Ex Milford Galleries, Dunedin
b. 1967 Twilight Team Oil on canvas 115 x 120 Signed, inscribed & dated 2009
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DICK FRIZZELL
PROVENANCE Purchased from exhibition Dick Frizzell Gow Langsford Gallery, The Strand, Auckland, 1990
b. 1943 Tiki Gouache on paper 19.5 x 18.5 Signed, inscribed & dated 6/9/1990 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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GREER TWISS
b. 1937 Vacuum Print ‘Definition’ I Plastic moulded sculpture with wooden frame 21.5 x 21.5 Signed, inscribed & dated 1969 verso
ESTIMATE $1,500 - 2,500
PROVENANCE Purchased from artist by current owner, 1969
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RUEBEN PATTERSON
b. 1973 This Little Light of Mine Screenprint & glitter on paper, edition of 35, 43 x 43 Signed, inscribed & dated 2013 ESTIMATE $1,700 - 2,000
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MICHAEL SMITHER
b. 1939 Central Otago Landscape Double sided watercolour 38 x 63 Signed & dated 1970
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ESTIMATE $5,000 - 8,000 PROVENANCE Collection of Frederick & Evelyn Page, Wellington
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1945 - 2013 Journey Up The Rakaia Oil and screenprint on canvas 69.5 x 89.5 Signed, inscribed & dated 1990 verso ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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CHARLOTTE HANDY
ESTIMATE $6,000 - 7,000
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IAN SCOTT
b. 1967 Yesterday Or A Long Time Ago Acrylic & oil on canvas 94.2 x 74 Signed & dated 2007
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J S PARKER
b. 1944 Plain Song Midwinter Stories Oil on heavy paper 100 x 70 Signed, inscribed & dated 2005
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MICHAEL HIGHT
b. 1961 Gimmerburn Oil on canvas 51 x 101.4 Signed, inscribed & dated 2006 ESTIMATE $11,000 - 13,000
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KARL MAUGHAN
b. 1964 Musselburgh Oil on linen 122 x 183 Signed & inscribed verso ESTIMATE $27,000 - 32,000
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JAN NIGRO
1920 - 2012 Coffee Pot & Pear Still Life, 1959 Oil on board 33.5 x 410 Signed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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LOUISE HENDERSON b. 1944 Coromandel Coast Oil on canvas 75 x 103 Signed & dated 1977 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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TOM MUTCH
ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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MICHAEL SMITHER
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b. 1951 Religious Life - Emile Series Oil on board 121 x 80 Signed & dated
b. 1939 Rocks and Sand Oil on board 61 x 91 Signed & dated 1967 ESTIMATE $15,000 - 20,000
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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.
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FELIX KELLY
1914 - 1994 First Act of Duel of Angels (Old Vic.1962) Oil on board 29 x 39 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Australia Exhibited: London in the Country and other Paintings by Felix Kelly, Arthur Jeffress Gallery November 1962, Cat no. 23 Original Arthur Jeffress label affixed verso
REFERENCE Fix The Art and Life of Felix Kelly Donald Bassett, Darrow Press 2008
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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, will soon be published.
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PETER SIDDELL
PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Family
1935 - 2011 Western View Pastel on paper 26 x 62 Signed ESTIMATE $6,000 - 8,000
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1877 - 1973 Gothic Doorway Quimper Oil on board 39 x 31.5 Signed ESTIMATE $9,000 - 13,000
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RITA ANGUS
ESTIMATE $12,000 - 16,000
PROVENANCE Collection of Frederick & Evelyn Page, Wellington
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1908 - 1970 Study for Fishing Boats, Island Bay Watercolour 28 x 28 Signed & dated 1949
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PETER SIDDELL
1935 - 2011 Houses and Two Volcanoes Oil on board 29.3 x 60 Signed & dated 1970 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Auckland since 1970
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EVELYN PAGE
ESTIMATE $30,000 - 40,000
1899 - 1888 Towards Eichardts - circa 1941 Oil on canvas board 31 x 51 Inscribed verso Queenstown
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Wellington CSA Gallery Christchurch , 1942 catalogue number 178 The Group Show, Christchurch, 1943 catalogue number 30 New Zealand Academy of Fine Art 1944, catalogue number 47 New Zealand Academy of Fine Art 1970 Evelyn Page Retrospective catalogue number 19 Evelyn Page Seven Decades 1986, Robert McDougall Gallery catalogue number 10 Illustrated p. 16 Evelyn Page Seven Decades, Janet Paul and Neil Roberts, Robert McDougall Art Gallery 1986
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OLIVIA SPENCER BOWER
PROVENANCE Purchased by current owner from International Art Centre, 1987
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1905 - 1982 Geese, Canterbury Farm Watercolour 39 x 55 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
1877 - 1973 Arthurs Pass, Calm After the Storm Oil on board 24 x 35 Signed & dated 1943 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
PROVENANCE Private Collection, France
1877 - 1973 Breton Girl Oil on canvas 46 x 37 Signed & dated 1913 ESTIMATE $12,000 - 16,000
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IVY GRACE FIFE
1905 - 1976 Rakaia Oil on board 36 x 41 Signed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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A LOIS WHITE
PROVENANCE Ex Artist’s Estate Collection
1910 - 1995 Waikato River and Lake Arapuni Oil on board 34.4 x 40 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 4,000
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PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995 Whakapapa River, King Country Watercolour 53 x 71 Signed ESTIMATE $20,000 - 30,000
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SYLVIA SIDDELL
1941 - 2011 Sinbad Discovers the Nest of the Giant Roc Oil on canvas 90 x 60 Signed & dated 2009 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000 PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Family
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PETER SIDDELL
1935 - 2011 Eventide Oil on canvas 90 x 150 Signed & dated 2009 ESTIMATE $45,000 - 65,000
PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Family
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PHILIP TRUSTTUM
ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
PROVENANCE Collection of Jane Evans (1946 - 2012)
EXHIBITED Collectors Exhibition, Suter Gallery, Nelson 1981 Suter Gallery label affixed verso
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STANLEY PALMER
ESTIMATE $18,000 - 22,000
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b. 1940 Landscape - Garden Series Oil on board 61 x 56 Signed & dated 1973 - 74
b. 1936 Moturoa - Cathedral Rock - Ahuahu Oil on linen 89.4 x 119.2 Signed & dated 2013
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FRANCES HODGKINS
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Bay of Plenty Purchased by current vendors from Trustees of Mrs Jocelyn Tidswell’s Estate
1869 - 1947 Woman with Children Watercolour 33.5 x 24.5 Signed ESTIMATE $25,000 - 35,000
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FRANCES HODGKINS
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Auckland International Art Centre c. 1984
1869 - 1947 Girl Feeding Poultry Watercolour 33.5 x 22 Signed & dated 1890 ESTIMATE $25,000 - 35,000
EXHIBITED The Hen Wife, Otago Art Society 7 November, 1890
REFERENCE p. 120 & 224 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand, E H McCormick
Anecdotal genre scenes of farmyard animals and the housemaid Phemie going about her daily tasks became synonymous with Frances Hodgkin’s early work. Quaint rural idylls had a lower status than subjects that captured the epic of grandeur of lakes and mountains. Even when Hodgkins shifted focus and painted just the figure, her work amused her family. ‘They were very funny at my expense tonight over the head and made scathing remarks about carved out turnips and beetroot ears, expressions more agricultural than artistic’, she wrote to her sister Isabel in April 1892. Frances Hodgkins A Private Viewing Joanne Drayton, Random House 2005
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EILEEN ROSEMARY MAYO
British, Australian, New Zealander 1906 -1994 Sea Holly Tempera on board 41 x 33 Signed Signed & inscribed on original artist’s label affixed verso ESTIMATE $25,000 - 35,000
PROVENANCE Collection of Sir Edward Beddington - Behrens 1897 - 1968 & his wife Princess Irena Obolensky Private Collection, Auckland by descent
Sea Holly is one of the finest paintings by Dame Eileen Mayo to be offered for sale. It features 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. This work is the original egg tempera painting 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. Widely acclaimed in London in the twenties, Eileen Mayo was a strikingly beautiful young woman who initially supplemented her income by modeling for some of the leading artists of the time including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. She studied design at the Slade School and Central School of Arts and Crafts. Instructed in lino cutting by Claude Flight, Mayo was invited to participate in The Second Exhibition of British Linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Kenneth Clark described her designs as 'outstandingly good' and her entries from 1930 to 1934 were acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She enjoyed a very successful career as an illustrator and contributor to publications such as Art News & Reviews. Mayo was one of the few British artists using egg tempera in the forties. While this choice of medium meant sacrificing the family egg ration for the essential albumen, it was the ideal vehicle to showcase her original and technically brilliant work. After extensive travels Mayo returned to London in 1936 to study under Henry Moore and Robert Medley at the Chelsea Polytechnic. By 1946 she had works in both the Royal Academy and the Arts Council touring exhibition, and had completed further books on animals for Pleiades Books. In 1952 she settled in Australia with the intention of being closer to her mother and sister who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1921. Inspired by the natural history of the southern hemisphere she taught, exhibited and was commissioned by both Qantas and the New South Wales Tourist Board. In 1962 she crossed the Tasman to live in New Zealand while still carrying out Australian commissions for stamp and decimal coinage design. At the invitation of the New Zealand Treasury Mayo completed several commissions for first-day covers and stamps, including the Captain Cook bicentenary stamps in 1969 and for the Unicef and Antarctic Treaty anniversaries. Mayo's print making continued unabated, and she continued to exhibit internationally. Mayo lived in Christchurch, teaching at the University of Canterbury until 1972. For more than three years she worked on an underwater diorama with Otago Museum. In 1994, one week before her death at the age of 87, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Sea Holly is presented in it’s original frame which bears this label verso
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CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD 1822 - 1897 Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu Watercolour 60 x 90 Signed & dated 1874 ESTIMATE $45,000 - 65,000 PROVENANCE Fine Art Auction, International Art Centre, 1971 Fine Paintings & Watercolours, International Art Centre March 1988 National Treasures Art Auction, International Art Centre, March 1993 Private Collection, Auckland
Charles Decimus Barraud was a New Zealand pharmacist and artist born in Camberwell, Surrey, England 1822. He emigrated with his family to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington in August 1849. His wife was a cousin of Judge Henry Samuel Chapman, and it was Chapman who encouraged the emigration, providing the Barrauds with a cottage until their own house had been built. From 1850 onwards Barraud won recognition for his landscapes which are of considerable historical value. He painted portraits of the Maori chiefs Honiana Te Puni-kokopu and Te Rangihaeata. Barraud’s 1853, Baptism of the Maori chief Te Puni in Otaki Church is held in the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu is one of Charles Decimus Barraud’s finest watercolours and has been held in a private collection since it’s acquisition from International Art Centre in 1993. When auctioned in 1971, Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu fetched a record for the artist’s work, achieving the highest price for a 19th Century New Zealand watercolour. Seventeen years later the painting again made headlines when it fetched a record $112,000 at International Art Centre’s March 1988 auction. In 2003 International Art Centre sold Barraud’s View of Wellington for $225,000, a record which still stands.
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JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965 Avignon Oil on board 35 x 57 Signed ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
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FRANCES HODGKINS
1869 - 1947 The Waterwheel, c. 1922 Watercolour 20 x 30.5 Signed ESTIMATE $27,000 - 35,000
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SIR WILLIAM FOX
PROVENANCE Wilkie Family Collection
1812 - 1893 Mt Egmont from the Recreation Ground, New Plymouth Watercolour 23 x 33 Inscribed & dated 1884 verso ESTIMATE $20,000 - 30,000
Poet’s Bridge in Pukekura Park was opened 11 March 1884. For over half a century it served the park until deterioration caused it to be replaced just before the second World War. Its present colour scheme is based on the famous red lacquer bridge in Nikko, Japan. Pukekura Park, established 1876, was known as the Recreation Ground or ‘The Rec’. It was the vision of local lawyer, Robert Clinton Hughes who persuaded the Taranaki Provincial Government to purchase 12 hectares of wasteland ‘near New Plymouth’ as a recreational reserve. Sir William Fox arrived in Wellington in 1852 and become editor of New Zealand Gazette and Britannia Spectator, before he was appointed Resident Agent at Nelson for the New Zealand Company. He subsequently played a leading part in politics and held the office of Premier on four occasions. He was knighted in 1879. In his early years in New Zealand Fox carried out much exploration in the Wairarapa and in the South Island. Fox’s greatest contribution to New Zealand history after the struggle for self-government in the 1850s was his work in Taranaki in the early 1880s as a member of the West Coast Commission, which consisted of Francis Dillon Bell and himself. A third commissioner, Hone Mohi Tawhai, declined to serve when he heard that his colleagues were to be Fox and Bell. No doubt he questioned the propriety of their appointments. The commission was charged with the duty of inquiring into the numerous promises and engagements allegedly made by successive government officials to the Taranaki Maori, and into the disputed land claims in that province. Fox had been a member of the government which had confiscated the land and with Bell had co-authored a pamphlet defending the Waitara purchase which had led to the war. Bell left for England as Agent General and Fox was left the daunting task of ensuring that the recommendations of the commission were carried out. He did an enormous amount of work and succeeded, not in satisfying the Maori, but in achieving a peaceful solution to Taranaki’s land problems and in helping to establish a lasting peace. A grateful Parliament awarded him the large sum of £2,000.
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THREE RARE WATERCOLOURS BY SIR WILLIAM FOX FROM THE WILKIE FAMILY COLLECTION LOTS 49 - 51
Fox Glacier was named to commemorate his visit to the region as Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1872. The Wairarapa town of Foxton, founded in 1885, was also named after him. In his later years Fox continued to undertake considerable physical exercise, climbing Mount Taranaki in 1892, aged 80. He died on 23 June 1893. The Wilkie Collection of watercolours by Sir William Fox was deposited on loan to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1964 by Mr & Mrs J C Wilkie. The collection consisted of some three hundred and fifty paintings of which one hundred were New Zealand scenes of significant historical importance. The Wilkie’s lived and farmed at Ohingaiti, not far from Westoe, Fox’s station in the Rangitikei.
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SIR WILLIAM FOX
PROVENANCE Wilkie Family Collection
1812 - 1893 Cattle with Mt Egmont Beyond Watercolour 22 x 28 ESTIMATE $15,000 - 20,000
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SIR WILLIAM FOX
PROVENANCE Wilkie Family Collection
1812 - 1893 Havana Bay, Cuba Watercolour Inscribed & dated 1853 ESTIMATE $5,000 - 10,000
In 1851, Fox travelled to London on behalf of a group of Wellington settlers. There he met Edward Gibbon Wakefield, elder brother of William and Arthur. He discussed his ideas about a constitution for New Zealand, strongly supporting self-rule, provincial autonomy, and two elected houses of parliament. He also attempted to meet Earl Grey, the British minister for colonial possessions, but was refused. When a constitution was promulgated the following year it incorporated some of Fox’s ideas, but was not satisfactory to him. Before returning to New Zealand, Fox and his wife spent some time travelling in Canada, the United States and Cuba.
Havana Bay was painted on that trip and shows a highly detailed view of Havana Bay with the Morro Castle, a picturesque fortress guarding the entrance to the bay. The watercolour has the following inscriptions in Fox’s hand at the bottom of the painting: Artillery Barracks 1853, Punto Fort, Gulf of Mexico, Moro (sic) Castle
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RHONA HASZARD
PROVENANCE Purchased from International Art Centre Important, Early & Rare July 2013 A Canterbury Estate collection
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CHRISTOPHER AUBREY
1901 - 1931 Sunlight and Shadows, c. 1926 Oil on canvas board 37 x 27 Signed ESTIMATE $10,000 - 15,000
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c. 1830 - 1902 Central Otago Settlement Watercolour 42 x 63 Signed & dated 1884 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000 PROVENANCE Private Collection, United Kingdom
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CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
1822 - 1897 Wairarapa Landscape Watercolour 32 x 45 Signed ESTIMATE $6,000 - 9,000
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CHRISTOPHER AUBREY c. 1830 - 1902 Lignite Mine, Southland Watercolour 37.5 x 57.5 Signed & dated 1881 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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FRANCES HODGKINS
REFERENCE p. 146 Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand, E H McCormack, Auckland City Art Gallery 1954 Catalogue no. 91
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PETER MCINTYRE
PROVENANCE Private Collection, The Netherlands
1869 - 1947 Harbour Scene Watercolour 21 x 12 Signed & dated 1898 ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
1910 - 1995 Wellington Oil on canvas board 40 x 49.5 Signed ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
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IDA G EISE
PROVENANCE Purchased directly from the artist who informed the buyer at the time that Road Under Construction featured the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, 1959
1891 - 1978 Road Under Construction Auckland Harbour Bridge Oil on board 25 x 31.5 Signed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 2,000
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GARTH TAPPER
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JOHN GULLY
1927 - 1999 Matakatia Bay Whangaparaoa Oil on panel 26 x 34 Signed & dated 1981 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
1819 - 1888 Lady Bowen Falls Watercolour 80 x 72.5 Signed & dated 1879 ESTIMATE $20,000 - 30,000
62 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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MARGARET OLROG STODDART
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1865 - 1934 Coastal Scene Watercolour 25 x 35 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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1877 - 1973 Cottage Farmyard Oil on board 26 x 37 Signed & dated 1911 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
MARGARET OLROG STODDART
1865 - 1934 Summer Roses Watercolour 47 x 60 Signed ESTIMATE $16,000 - 22,000 62
64 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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LEONARD MITCHELL
1925 - 1980 Heeni Te Kiri Karamu Giving Water to Lieutenant-Colonel Booth at Gate Pa 1864, Painted c. 1960 Ink on paper 38 x 53.5 Signed Inscription verso ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
66 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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ARTIST UNKNOWN
1835 - 1913 Maori Artifacts Oil on canvas 26 x 36 ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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VERA CUMMINGS
1891 - 1949 Ko-Here ‘It is Mary’ Oil on canvas 20 x 14.5 Signed Inscribed verso ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500
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VERA CUMMINGS
1891 - 1949 He-Tino-Toa ‘Great Warrior’ Oil on canvas 20 x 14.5 Signed Inscribed verso ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500
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ANDREW COATES
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ANDREW COATES
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Canterbury
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Canterbury
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ANDREW COATES
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Canterbury
b. 1955 North Island Homestead Oil on board 39 x 59.5 Signed ESTIMATE $5,000 - 8,000
b. 1955 Fields after Harvest Oil on board 28.7 x 58 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
b. 1955 Sheep at Wanaka Oil on board 22.5 x 35 Signed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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71
MARK CROSS
b. 1955 Two Species, Two Agendas Sheep Country Series Oil on canvas 71 x 183 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
This painting is one of a series of 2004/05 paintings entitled Sheep Country. The artist was interested in the marks that sheep made on the land, while using the sheep-like tendency to follow one another, as a metaphor for the stifling of lateral and free thinking in a conservative country. The two species suggested in the title are sheep and humans, and while their tracks (hooves and tyres) follow each other in the foreground, they are tangentially separated in middle distance when the sheep take a sharp left hand turn up the slope. While the two species have agendas different from each other, they are bound relentlessly by their own stubborn predispositions. The paintings of Sheep Country were mainly of the South Island. Two Species, Two Agendas is of the Manorburn area of Central Otago. MARK CROSS
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PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995 Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice Watercolour 53 x 69 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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MARK CROSS
b. 1955 Ridgeline, King Country Oil on canvas 71 x 137 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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DOUGLAS BADCOCK
ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
PROVENANCE Artist’s Estate Collection
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DOUGLAS BADCOCK
ESTIMATE $6,000 - 8,000
PROVENANCE Artist’s Estate Collection
1922 - 2009 Autumn, Central Otago No. 6, Waikerikeri Valley Oil on board 39 x 55 Signed
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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.
72 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
1922 - 2009 Early Morning, Morven Ferry Road, Wakatipu Oil on board 47 x 68 Signed
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RICHMOND BEETHAM
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CHARLES MERYON
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WALTER WRIGHT
PROVENANCE Exhibited Auckland Society of Arts, 1888. Cat. no. 104 Titled ‘Bit of Our Harbour’
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J B WARNER
80
A MAY MOORE
1836 –1912 Te Rauparana Watercolour 24 x 22 ESTIMATE $2,000 - 3,000
1828 - 1868 Nouvelle - Zeland, Presqu’ile de Bank, 1845 Engraving 11.5 x 29.5 ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
1866 - 1933 Bit of Our Harbour Oil on board 18 x 30 Signed & dated 1888 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5000
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74 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
New Zealand 19th Century Regatta Day, Waitemata 1891 Oil on canvas 34 x 54 Signed ESTIMATE $2,000 - 3,000
New Zealand 19th Century Portrait of Horatio Nelson Warner Oil on canvas 70 x 50 Signed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 3,000
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PROVENANCE LOTS 78 - 80 Warner Family Collection
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Miss A May Moore exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts as a working member 1899 - 1906. Her chosen subject, Horatio Nelson Warner, was a prominent colonist who arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1843 and settled in Auckland. He worked with Charles Heaphy as a draughtsman and was Deputy Commissioner of the Waste Lands Committee. An artist himself, he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts in 1875. He was the father of artist J B Warner, Lot 79.
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81
DOUGLAS BADCOCK
1922 - 2009 Sycamores & Rocky Bluffs, Arthurs Point Oil on board 35 x 45 Signed. Inscribed & dated 1966 verso
ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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DOUGLAS BADCOCK
b. 1973 Whitechapel, Near Arrowtown, Central Otago Oil on board 29.5 x 39.5 Signed. Inscribed & dated 1995 verso ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
1835 - 1913 Lake Waikaremoana Watercolour 42 x 63 Signed & dated 1879 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
76 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
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JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
1835 - 1913 Walter Peak, Lake Wakatipu Watercolour 18 x 34 Signed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
1835 - 1913 Pelorus Sound Watercolour 15 x 32 Signed ESTIMATE $1,500 - 2,500
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78 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
DOROTHY KATE RICHMOND 1861 - 1935 Blue Wildflowers Watercolour 27 x 23 Signed & dated 1925 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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STANLEY BERKELEY
1855 - 1909 Farrier Sgt. W. J. Hardham. No.7 Company (‘C’ Squadron) 4th Rough Riders - New Zealand Contingent Winning his Victoria Cross Near Naauwpoort, South Africa, on 28th January 1901. London Gazette 4th October 1901. Watercolour 46.5 x 36 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000 Stanley Berkeley was an British painter favouring animal, sporting and historical military subjects. Born in London, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Grafton Galleries and the New Watercolour Society from 1878 until 1902. Many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo. Berkeley also depicted contemporary events and several were published as photogravures by Henry Graves including The Victory of Candahar, Charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, Atbara, and Omdurman. Some of his most popular pictures were representations of dramatic events in the Boer War. He also provided illustrations for various books, magazines and newspapers, producing many works in watercolour and monochrome. In 1884, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers for his illustration work. Berkeley married landscape painter, Edith Berkeley and they lived at Surbiton Hill, Surrey, where he died on April 24, 1909.
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JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965 Facades at Night Tempera on board 75 x 62 ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
80 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965 Eden Terrace Oil on board 40 x 50 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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JOHN WEEKS
1886 - 1965 Rural Landscape Watercolour 33 x 41 Signed ESTIMATE $1,500 - 2,500
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
1877 - 1973 Tunny Boats, Concarneau Oil on panel 39.5 x 31.5 Signed ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
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WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER 1864 - 1929 Grey River Oil on canvas 45 x 67 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
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SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
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WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER
1877 - 1973 Canterbury Stream Oil on canvas board 36 x 43 Signed ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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1864 - 1929 Wanganui River Oil on canvas 40 x 59 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER 1864 - 1929 Lake Moana Oil on canvas 45 x 67 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $2,000 - 3,000
CHARLES BLOMFIELD
1848 - 1926 Waterfall Oil on board 35 x 24 Signed & dated 1904 ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500 93
82 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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PETER JAMES SMITH
ESTIMATE $16,000 - 18,000
b. 1964 Dumont D’Urville At French Pass, 28 January 1827 Oil on canvas 91.6 x 168 Signed, inscribed & dated 2002
84 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
98
MICHAEL HIGHT
ESTIMATE $4,500 - 5,500
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THEO SCHOON
ESTIMATE $7,000 - 9,000
b. 1961 Parikawa Oil on canvas 35.5 x 45.5 Signed, inscribed & dated 2012
1915 - 1985 Untitled 3 (The Eye), Woodcut on paper 50.8 x 38.4 Signed
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JOHN ARROWSMITH
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Wellington
101
JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR DUMONT D’URVILLE
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Wellington
1790 - 1873 Map of the Colony of New Zealand - 1844 Lithograph print published 1843 63 x 50 Inscribed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 1,500
1790 - 1842 Plan de la Baie Houa-Houa (Ile Ika-Na-Mawi) Lithograph 29 x 40 Inscribed ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
86 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
102
PETER MCINTYRE
1910 - 1995 Sampans & Junks in Hong Kong Harbour Watercolour 53 x 72 Signed ESTIMATE $7,000 - 10,000
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103
ARCHIBALD FRANK NICOLL
104
JOHN HOLMWOOD
1886 - 1952 Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on canvas 90 x 70 Signed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 2,000
1910 - 1987 Still Life with Lemons Oil on board 51 x 60 Signed ESTIMATE $3,500 - 5,500
88 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
105
JAMES FRASER SCOTT
106
JAMES FRASER SCOTT
1877 - 1932 Estuary Scene - double sided Watercolour 28 x 38 Signed ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
1877 - 1932 The Red Slippers Oil on board 60 x 49 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
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107
ROWLAND FREDERICK HILDER OBE
108
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT
PROVENANCE Private Collection Auckland since 1995 Campbell & Franks (fine arts) Ltd, London, label attached verso
109
ROBERT JOHNSON
British 1905 – 1993 Winter Landscape, circa 974 Watercolour 36 x 52 Signed ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
British 1880 - 1969 Girl on the Crag Watercolour 19 x 22.5 Signed ESTIMATE $4,500 - 6,500
Australian 1890 - 1964 Old Boats, Berry’s Bay Oil on board 37 x 45 Signed ESTIMATE $9,000 - 12,000
90 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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92 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
JOOST CORNELISZ DROOCHSLOOT Dutch 1586 - 1666 Village Scene Oil on panel 25 x 71.5 Signed & dated 1647 ESTIMATE $10,000 - 20,000
DAVID COX JNR
British 1809 - 1885 The Haymakers Family Watercolour 44.5 x 72.5 Signed & dated 1843 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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JOHN EMMS
British 1844 - 1912 Logging in the New Forrest Oil on canvas 54 x 75 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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113
Russian 1878 - 1953 Untitled - Seated Girl Pencil on paper on canvas 78 x 56 Signed & dated 1945 ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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JEAN LOUIS FORAIN
PROVENANCE LOTS 113 - 114 Collection of Sir Edward Beddington - Behrens 1897 - 1968 & his wife Princess Irena Obolensky Private Collection, Auckland by descent
French 1852 - 1931 Untitled Watercolour 23 x 32 ESTIMATE $2,000 - 3,000
94 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
SAVELY ABRAMOVICH SORINE
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MARGARET OLROG STODDART
116
1865 - 1934 Diamond Harbour Watercolour 25 x 35 Signed & dated 1919 ESTIMATE $3,000 - 5,000
DOUGLAS MACDIARMID 1861 - 1935 Via Appia Attica XII Acrylic on paper 27 x 23 Signed & dated 1991 ESTIMATE $2,500 - 3,500
DICK FRIZZELL
b. 1943 Still Life II Unique monoprint 52.5 x 72.5 Signed & inscribed 30/1/1990 ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
117
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119
ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD
Australian 1920 - 1999 Serpents - Three Heads & Snake, 1964 Pastel on paper 46.5 x 62 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
118
JOHN WEEKS
ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
1886 - 1965 Peruvian Motif Oil on board 40 x 32 Signed
96 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
120
JOHN GULLY
1819 - 1888 Southern Waterfall Watercolour 64 x 48 Signed ESTIMATE $8,000 - 12,000
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FATU FEU’U
b. 1946 The Festivals Oil on canvas 100 x 100 Signed, inscribed & dated 2011 verso ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
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JOHN GULLY
1819 - 1888 Birch Trees and Fern Trees Pencil on paper 32 x 21 Inscribed ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
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DENIS KNIGHT TURNER
1924 - 2011 Untitled (4) Watercolour 57.5 x 37.7 Signed & dated 1992 ESTIMATE $6,500 - 8,000
98 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
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CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING 1888 - 1982 Partington’s Mill Watercolour 52 x 38 Signed & dated 1946 ESTIMATE $1,500 - 2,500
CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING 1888 - 1982 Mission House, Auckland Watercolour 40 x 65 Signed & dated 1946 ESTIMATE $1,500 - 2,500
HELEN BROWN
1917 - 1986 Old Alton Street House Watercolour 36 x 46 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $800 - 1,200
THOMAS ARTHUR MACORMACK
1883 - 1973 Karori Watercolour 45 x 55 Signed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 2,000
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PEGGY SPICER
1908 - 1984 Franklin Road, Freemans Bay Watercolour 35 x 48 Signed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 1,500
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CORA HILDA BLANCHE WILDING 1888 - 1982 Murdiho - Moroccan Boy Watercolour 40 x 30 Signed & inscribed ESTIMATE $1,000 - 1,500 Thank you - End of Sale
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The Art of
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Over the Hill, Near Marton Acrylic on board 43.5 x 75cm
100 Important, Early & Rare 6:30pm Wednesday 6 August 2014
Waiting for the Sun Port Chalmers Acrylic on board 39.5 x 55cm
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J Keulemans watercolour
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Recent Prices Realised Important, Early & Rare held 10 April 2014 & Contemporary & Modern Art held 22 May 2014 & Collectable Art 25 June Includes post auction negotiated sales. Prices quoted are fall of the hammer which attract buyers premium 10 April 2014 Important, Early & Rare Lot Result 1 $3,250 2 $3,000 3 $11,000 5 $1,450 6 $4,600 7 $2,400 8 $7,500 10 $3,500 12 $2,500 13 $2,750 14 $2,000 15 $4,250 16 $17,500 18 $2,000 19 $18,000 20 $285,000 21 $7,500 23 $20,000 24 $3,500 25 $37,500 26 $58,000 27 $49,500 29 $36,000 30 $27,000 31 $47,000 32 $27,000 33 $12,000 34 $301,000 38 $15,000 39 $32,000 40 $90,000 42 $10,000 43 $17,600 44 $11,000 45 $4,200 46 $4,500 47 $2,500 48 $700 49 $6,000 50 $6,750 51 $11,000 52 $2,200 53 $2,600 54 $2,150 55 $1,500 56 $2,600 57 $9,000 59 $1,000 60 $1,325 61 $425
62 $6,800 65 $1,100 66 $3,100 67 $8,000 68 $20,500 71 $2,000 72 $1,700 75 $1,500 76 $15,000 77 $7,000 78 $7,000 79 $2,000 80 $2,400 81 $4,600 82 $3,000 83 $5,200 84 $5,800 85 $1,700 87 $1,500 88 $1,200 89 $1,200 90 $400 91 $4,900 92 $400 94 $2,600 22 May Contemporary & Modern Art 1 $760 3 $3,000 5 $1,600 9 $4,000 10 $5,500 12 $2,250 13 $5,250 15 $16,000 16 $4,000 17 $6,500 18 $4,000 19 $1,300 20 $1,200 21 $11,500 23 $45,000 24 $13,700 28 $5,500 29 $4,000 32 $1,725 33 $11,000 34 $3,200 35 $4,500 38 $1,350 39 $7,000 42 $8,000
45 $1,200 46 $400 49 $600 50 $600 51 $4,000 58 $12,250 60 $3,500 61 $4,000 63 $650 64 $800 65 $860 67 $7,200 69 $725 70 $4,500 71 $2,400 73 $440 75 $500 76 $1,700 79 $900 80 $400 81 $900 83 $1,400 86 $950 87 $2,100 88 $2,100 89 $350 91 $2,025 92 $8,000 95 $2,000 97 $1,450 98 $1,650 99 $550 100 $1,300 102 $800 103 $3,750 104 $400 105 $3,500 106 $850 107 $1,300 108 $8,500 109 $1,000 113 $4,000 116 $700 117 $1,400 118 $2,500 119 $1,000 121 $1,500 123 $1,900 126 $6,000 127 $6,000 129 $3,750 130 $1,050 131 $5,000 132 $3,500
133 $4,000 134 $3,000 135 $2,500 136 $400 139 $450 140 $400 143 $1,400 144 $900 145 $1,075 146 $1,000 147 $500 148 $1,670 149 $400 150 $650 151 $300 152 $350 153 $300 154 $500 155 $3,500 156 $2,250 157 $2,500 158 $2,000 160 $1,400 162 $1,500 163 $2,500 164 $800 165 $700 167 $400 168 $1,000 169 $550 170 $780 171 $275 172 $1,000 173 $120 174 $18,000 25 June Collectable Art 2 $1,000 3 $950 7 $900 8 $1,200 9 $400 10 $5,000 11 $550 12 $600 13 $250 14 $550 15 $1,020 16 $550 17 $3,600 18 $2,750 19 $4,500 20 $1,200
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22 $2,450 23 $900 25 $4,000 26 $550 27 $3,000 28 $1,000 29 $2,400 30 $340 31 $400 32 $400 33 $200 34 $260 35 $200 36 $200 37 $325 38 $340 39 $2,200 40 $800 41 $450 42 $450 43 $650 44 $550 45 $7,000 46 $400 48 $1,300 49 $375 50 $525 51 $1,000 52 $650 53 $550 54 $1,100 55 $220 59 $400 60 $400 61 $1,600 62 $420 63 $500 64 $760 66 $300 67 $200 68 $630 69 $210 70 $200 73 $50 74 $300 75 $700 76 $550 77 $1,200 78 $175 79 $290 80 $320 81 $180 82 $240 83 $400
84 $150 85 $360 87 $520 89 $500 90 $550 91 $1,000 92 $300 94 $700 95 $600 96 $800 97 $1,200 99 $4,200 100 $150 101 $1,470 102 $650 103 $4,400 104 $2,000 105 $1,100 106 $800 107 $1,000 108 $1,900 109 $600 110 $1,200 111 $900 112 $700 113 $1,500 114 $700 115 $1,000 116 $825 117 $480 120 $4,000 121 $320 122 $2,100 123 $200 124 $230 126 $360 127 $70 129 $200 130 $750 131 $300 132 $300 133 $400 134 $350 135 $300 136 $300 137 $300 138 $410 139 $1,350 141 $1,700 142 $320 143 $320 145 $2,900 146 $2,100 147 $310
149 $360 150 $410 151 $400 152 $140 153 $150 154 $300 155 $800 156 $700 157 $650 158 $525 159 $4000 160 $1,800 163 $650 164 $2,400 165 $480 166 $200 167 $500 168 $280 169 $1,000 171 $160 172 $425 173 $200 174 $250 175 $160 176 $300 177 $150 178 $575 179 $200 180 $1,500 181 $650 182 $180 183 $540 186 $260 188 $520 189 $1,800 190 $525 191 $2,400 193 $1,700 194 $275 195 $600 196 $200 197 $400 198 $55 199 $1,000 200 $1,000 202 $500 203 $5,000 204 $2,000 205 $50 206 $75 207 $800 208 $50 209 $150 210 $200 211 $1,700
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Index ANGUS R...................................................................30
FRIZZELL D.....................................................7, 14, 117
REES E........................................................................13
ARROWSMITH J......................................................100
GULLY J.....................................................60, 120, 122
RICHMOND D K.......................................................86
AUBREY C...........................................................53, 55
HANDY C..................................................................19
SCHOON T................................................................99
BADCOCK D..........................................74, 75, 81, 82
HASZARD R...............................................................52
SCOTT I......................................................................18
BAKER W G...................................................92, 94, 95
HENDERSON L..........................................................24
SCOTT J F........................................................105, 106
BARRAUD C D....................................................46, 54
HIGHT M..............................................................21, 98
SIDDELL P..................................................1, 28, 31, 40
BEETHAM R...............................................................76
HILDER OBE R F.......................................................107
SIDDELL S..................................................................39
BERKELEY S................................................................87
HODGKINS F..........................................43, 44, 48, 56,
SMITH P J...................................................................97
BINNEY D...............................................................9, 12
HOLMWOOD J.......................................................104
SMITHER M..........................................................17, 26
BLOMFIELD C............................................................96
HOTERE R....................................................................8
SORINE S A.............................................................113
BOYD A M B...........................................................119
HOYTE J B C..................................................83, 84, 85
SPENCER B O ...........................................................33
BROWN H...............................................................126
JOHNSON R............................................................109
SPICER P .................................................................128
BULLMORE E...............................................................4
KELLY F.......................................................................27
STODDART M O..........................................61, 63, 115
COATES A.....................................................68, 69, 70
MACDIARMID D.....................................................116
SUTTON W A (BILL).....................................................3
COX JNR D ............................................................111
MAUGHAN K............................................................22
TAPPER G............................................................10, 59
CROSS M............................................................71, 73
MAYO E.....................................................................45
THOMPSON S L...........................29, 34, 35, 62, 91, 93
CUMMINGS V.....................................................66, 67
MCCORMACK T A.................................................127
TOLE C........................................................................5
DROOCHSLOOT J C .............................................110
MCINTYRE P..........................................38, 57, 72, 102
TRUSTTUM P...............................................................41
DUMONT D J S C....................................................101
MERYON C...............................................................77
TURNER D K.............................................................123
EISE I..........................................................................58
MITCHELL L...............................................................64
TWISS G.....................................................................15
EMMS J...................................................................112
MOORE A M.............................................................80
UNKNOWN ARTIST....................................................65
EVANS J.....................................................................11
MUTCH T...................................................................25
WARNER J B..............................................................79
FEU’U F....................................................................121
NICOLL A F.............................................................103
WEEKS J..........................................47, 88, 89, 90, 118
FIFE I G......................................................................36
NIGRO J....................................................................23
WHITE A L..................................................................37
FLINT W R................................................................108
PAGE E .....................................................................32
WILDING C H B.......................................124, 125, 129
FORAIN J L..............................................................114
PALMER S..................................................................42
WRIGHT W................................................................78
FOX W...........................................................49, 50, 51
PARKER J S............................................................6, 20
FRANCE P...................................................................2
PATTERSON R............................................................16
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Conditions of Sale and A Guide to Buyers The highest bidder shall be the buyer. In the event of any dispute as to the bidding in respect of any lot, that lot may be offered again at the discretion of the auctioneer whose decision shall be absolute and final. The auctioneer has the right (i) to refuse any bid; (ii) to advance the bidding at his absolute discretion; (iii) to place a reserve on any lot; (iv) to place a bid or bids on behalf of the seller; (v) to withdraw any lot from sale; (vi) to require a successful bidder to pay forthwith the whole or any part of the purchase price. The auctioneer acts as the agent of the seller and neither he nor the seller shall be responsible for any defects or faults in any lot or for any errors of description or for genuineness or authenticity of any lot and no compensation shall be paid in respect of same. From the time of lot being sold, such lot will be the responsibility of the buyer. Successful bidders are required to pay for purchases immediately on completion of sale unless otherwise arranged. All intending buyers are required to register for a bidding number prior to auction commencing. Subscribers can use their permanent bidding number. We reserve the right to ask for identification if you are a first time client of International Art Centre. Each lot shall be paid for and removed at the buyers expense by no later than 5pm Friday 8 August 2014 unless otherwise arranged failing which the auctioneer and/or the seller shall have the right to forfeit any deposit paid by the buyer and to resell the lot either by public or private sale and any deficiency on costs of resale shall be borne by the defaulting buyer. No lot may be collected whilst auction is in progress. Payment can also not be made until completion of auction. SUBJECT BIDS When the auctioneer declares a lot ‘subject’ this means the bid is below the set reserve and is subject to vendor accepting, rejecting or negotiating the bid. International Art Centre will endeavour to make contact with the vendor immediately after sale or the following day. If the bid is accepted, the highest bidder is obligated to make purchase. ESTIMATES Estimates are provided for each entry and act as a guide only. They are prepared well in advance of sale and are subject to revision at any time. Estimates are based on hammer price and do not include buyers premium.
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ABSENTEE BIDS Absentee bidding arranged - please refer to absentee bidding in back of catalogue. Fax to (09) 307 3421 or post to PO Box 37 344 Parnell before 3pm day of sale. Please do not be offended if a member of our staff ask for your credit card details as security. Absentee bids can also be left via our website to registered members. Our website www.fineartauction.co.nz acts as a useful auxiliary to the catalogue but we recommend inspection or a condition report prior to leaving a bid. Our staff will gladly supply you with a condition report on any lot. TELEPHONE BIDS Telephone bidding available to subscribers and registered bidders. There is no charge for this service. PAYMENT FACILITIES Eftpos: Available for transactions depending on your daily limit. Bank deposits: Please ask for our bank details to be sent by fax or email if you wish to pay by direct debit. Quote the Lot number(s) purchased as reference. Cheques: Accepted by known clients of International Art Centre or at our discretion. When posting cheques please ensure they are sent to the following address. International Art Centre PO Box 37 344 Parnell, Auckland 1151. Make cheque payable to ‘International Art Centre’. International Art Centre reserves the right to release goods once cheque proceeds have been cleared. Credit cards: Visa and Mastercard accepted with a 2% surcharge. American Express cards not accepted. EXPORTING As a general rule, anyone exporting New Zealand works over 60 years of age should apply for an export certificate from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to avoid disputes with customs. This does not apply to non New Zealand works. For full details visit www.mch.govt.nz FREIGHT & PACKING International Art Centre arrange door to door delivery both nationally and internationally. Please arrange insurance on your items prior to them leaving our premises. OTHER ENQUIRIES Should you have any questions relating to the sale or if we can be of any other assistance please contact us during business hours on (09) 379 4010, Toll Free 0800 800 322 or email info@internationalartcentre.co.nz BUYERS PREMIUM 15% Buyers premium plus GST on premium applies to all lots. (Total buyers premium is 17.25% including GST) www.fineartauction.co.nz
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