Collectable & Contemporary Art Auction
6:00pm Thursday 8th December 2011
Conditions of Sale & A Guide to Buyers
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BUYERS PREMIUM
15% Buyers premium plus GST on premium applies to all lots. Total buyers premium is 17.25% including GST
Auction Date & Time
6:00pm Thursday 8th December 2011
Auction Venue
Scarborough Gallery, International Art Centre
Lower Ground Level 272 Parnell Road, Auckland
Viewing Times
Friday 2nd December 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday 4th December 11:00am - 4:00pm
Monday 5th December 9:00am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 6th December 9:00am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 7th December 9:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8th December 9:00am - 1:00pm (Auction 6:00pm)
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Illustrated front cover: Lot 18
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Carlo Mirabasso
Piccolo borgo sul mare Oil on panel 71 x 71cm
American b. 1955 Balloon Dog (Blue), 2002
Cast porcelain - Edition of 2300 26.5 x 26.5
In original box as issued 1,500 - 2,000
Cast porcelain coated with a blue reflective finish, attached to porcelain plate also coated with mirrored, reflective finish. A reproduction of Koon’s large-scale original. The art piece comes with it’s own perspex stand/base and is a handnumbered edition of 2300.
1 JEFF KOONS
Provenance: Purchased by current owner from Gow
2 SARA HUGHES In the Wild Acrylic on linen 120 x 120 Signed, inscribed & dated 2007 verso 6,500 - 8,500
Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 2007 2
3 STAFFORD ALLPRESS
Spare Room
Mdf, card, plastic, balsa wood, paper, acrylic, enamel and wood scultpture
12.5 x 19.2
400 - 650
Exhibited Seed Gallery, Auckland, February 2008
Matsu Modoki
Acrylic paint, plastic models, metal 25 x 28
800 - 1,200
5 PETER PANYOCZKI
Untitled Oil and sand on paper 81 x 120
Signed & dated 2006
800 - 1,200
4 RYUZO NISHIDA
RICHARD THOMPSON
The Women of Jerusalem Weep for Jesus Oil on canvas 110 x 76
Signed, inscribed & dated 2008 verso 6,000 - 7,000
Here is Belladonna the Lady of the Rocks the Lady of Situations, 1999
Monolithograph on linen 185 x 228
Signed, inscribed & dated 1999
4,500 - 5,500
11 TONY LANE
Small Tree with Stigmata Oil on gesso panel 23 x 31.5
Signed & dated 5/92.
Signed, inscribed & dated 1992 verso
1,400 - 1,600
DARRYN GEORGE
10 JOHN REYNOLDS
BILL HAMMOND
Bird Study
Acrylic on paper 75 x 55
Signed & dated 1993
8,000 - 12,000 13
BILL HAMMOND & GAVIN CHILCOTT
Untitled
Acrylic on paper 44 x 64.5
Signed by both artists verso. Dated 1991
1,500 - 2,500 14
MICHAEL HARRISON
Hearsay 1997 - 2001
Acrylic on paper 29.2 x 20.7
Signed 1,800 - 2,500
Private Collection, Auckland
Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington 15
DENNIS O’CONNOR
Dust Became Light
Slate inkwell 18 x 12
Signed & inscribed & dated 2009 verso
2,500 - 3,500
Inscription verso reads: Image from a dream before dawn 6.4.2006. (The stone was crystal clear sparkling like a diamond.)
Title from a poem by Hans Magnus Enzenberger - A Parting for Max Sebald
Private Collection, Auckland Two Rooms, Auckland
16 KARL MAUGHAN
Colyton (May)
Oil on canvas 90 x 120
Signed and dated 2008 verso
11,000 - 13,000
17 MILAN MRKUSICH
Grey Ark
Oil pastel on paper 70.2 x 50.3
Signed 5,000 - 7,000
18 MAX GIMBLETT
Ming
Oil on canvas 50.8 x 50.8
Signed, inscribed & dated 1978 verso
4,000 - 6,000
Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts
19 JOHN WALSH
The Comet, the Prophet
Oil on panel 30.5 x 90.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 2001 verso
3,000 - 5,000
Motifs Oil on board 58 x 137 Signed 4,000 - 6,000
The Farmers Grain Store Oil on canvas 76 x 137
Signed & dated 2005
5,000 - 7,000
Pare for an Economic Recovery Oil on board 90 x 120
Signed & dated 2005
16,000 - 18,000
23
MIKE PETRE
Field Study 101 Oil on canvas 122 x 121.7
Signed & dated 2007 verso
8,000 - 10,000
BUCK NIN
BARRY ROSS SMITH
22 JOHN WALSH
25 RUBEN PATTERSON
Humble Beginnings: The Hyme Part I
Glitter and acrylic on paper 76.5 x 55.9
Signed & dated 2008 verso
3,500 - 4,000
26 DENYS WATKINS
El Nino
Acrylic on canvas 91 x 97
Signed & dated 1995 verso
3,500 - 4,500
Illustrated:
Back cover and p. 202
Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Michael Dunn, Craftsman House 1996
27 PETER CLEVERLEY
Red at Night
Oil on wood panel 26.5 x 108.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1995 3,500 - 4,000
& inscribed verso 800 - 1,200
Shattered Glass Slipper with Bacon Lining, 2008 Photograph, Edition of 5 40 x 61.5 Signed verso 500 - 800
Untitled Oil on canvas 39 x 39 Signed & dated 30/10/1991 verso 2,500 - 3,500
31 KURA TE WARU REWIRI Ivy
Acrylic on board 29 x 44 Signed
32 NIKI HILL
KARL MAUGHAN
Fragment 5 Oil on board 58 x 58 Signed & dated 1976
1,000 - 1,500
2nd Study for Vorticist
Gouache on paper 20.4 x 16.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 26/5/92
2,000 - 3,000
HANNAH KIDD Highlights from the Museum (Four-horned Antelope)
Steel rod & corrugated iron sculpture 38 x 41 4,000 - 5,000
35
JAMES ROSS
36
DICK FRIZZELL
Tiki Rug
37 JEFFREY HARRIS
Untitled Pastel on paper 102 x 150
Signed & dated 1988
2,000 - 3,000
38 KURA TE WARU REWIRI
An Idea from the Past Acrylic on canvas 150 x 100
Signed, inscribed & dated 03/02
2,000 - 3,000
40
After Stubbs: Field Study 134
on board 57.2 x 75.2 Signed & dated 2010 5,000 - 7,000
MIKE PETRE
41 PETER SIDDELL
42
DAVID ARMITAGE
Coonawarra
Acrylic and dye on canvas 126 x 97
Signed & dated 2001
1,500 - 2,500
43
JAC DWYER
The Departure
Mixed media on hessian laid on board
53 x 54.5
Signed inscribed & dated 1990 verso
200 - 400
44
JOE SHEEHAN
Non-Rechargable
Russian nephrite jade / sterling silver / set against Craig Potton photograph mounted on card 13 x 8
Signed & inscribed verso
150 - 250
45
SIMON MCINTYRE
Untitled
Oil on paper 28 x 22
Signed
400 - 600
46
MATTHEW CAMPBELL DOWNS
Kiwi Black
Photograph 38 x 28
300 - 400
47
MARK SMITH
Home Truths, 2006
Fibre-based gelatin print & C type print (diptych) - Edition of 3 23.5 x 60
In original box as issued
400 - 600
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SHEPHARD FAIREY
Obey
Screenprint edition of 300 35 x 45
Signed, inscribed & dated 2005
800 - 1,200
49
RONALD ANDREASEND
Butterflies Landscape Disc
Mixed media cast in resin 16.5 x 16.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 2009 verso
200 - 400
50
MARK BRAUNIAS
Contemporary New Zealand
Series 37000 The Serious New Zealander
Mixed media on paper 30 x 21
Inscribed
400 - 600 51
DELIA WOODHAM
Monkey in the Kitchen
Lithograph and ink on paper 41 x 28
Signed & dated 2008
150 - 250 52
JESSICA PEARLESS
Modular Duplex III
Adhesive vinyl on safety glass 23 x 31
Signed, inscribed & dated 2005 verso
150 - 250 53
PAUL HARTIGAN
Golden Warrior
Ultrachrome edition of 10 60 x 30
Signed, inscribed & dated 2007
800 - 1,200
54 CHRIS MEEK
Nothing Lasts 4 Eva
Mixed media on aluminium 64 x 45
Signed. Inscribed & dated 2009 verso
400 - 600
55 ALLEN MADDOX
Untitled
Pastel on paper 38 x 26.5
Signed
800 - 1,200
56 J S PARKER
Take A Walk
Pastel on paper 41.5 x 29
Signed & dated 1974
400 - 600
PETER JAMES-SMITH
Violin Performance
Oil on four panels 152 x 120
Signed, inscribed & dated 1978
500 - 800
58 PHILIP CLAIRMONT
Untitled Ink on paper 58 x 44
500 - 800
59 ALLEN MADDOX
The Abomination of Those Who Admonish Against Strawberries Oil on linen 16 x 17
Signed & inscribed verso 800 - 1,200
60 RIDUAN TOMKINS
Untitled Blue/Green
Lithograph, Edition of 14 30.5 x 60.5
Signed 650 - 850
61 ALLEN MADDOX
Untitled Oil and enamel on paper 32.5 x 26 600 - 1,000
62 PETER OXBOROUGH
Dawdle Resting on an Oar Bronze and granite sculpture 88 x 32 1,000 - 2,000
63 DICK FRIZZELL
Another Big Kiss
Screenprint, Edition of 100 80.2 x 65.2
Signed, inscribed & dated 2009 2,400 - 2,600
64 KARL MAUGHAN
Colyton
Screenprint, Edition of 100 64 x 107.5
Signed & inscribed 2,000 - 2,500
65 DICK FRIZZELL
Back and Forth
Lithograph, Edition of 40 30 x 31
Signed, inscribed & dated 1999 1,100 - 1,400
66 DICK FRIZZELL
Phantom Flowers
Screenprint, Edition of 75 53 x 35
Signed, inscribed & dated 2004 1,200 - 1,400
67 DICK FRIZZELL
Overnight Success
Screenprint, Edition of 150 42.9 x 33.4
Signed, inscribed & dated 2009 1,400 - 1,600
68 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
Rooster on Fence Collage Oil on canvas 87 x 87
Signed & dated 1984 2,000 - 3,000
69
HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
Still Life with Musical Instruments Oil on canvas 99.5 x 70
Signed & dated 1984 2,000 - 3,000
70
KURA TE WARU REWIRI
He Pine Oroha / Brooche of Love
Acrylic on board 44 x 29
Signed. Inscribed & dated 03/00 verso
800 - 1,200
71 J S PARKER
Shades of North Canterbury Oil on canvas 45 x 35
Signed & dated 2006 3,200 - 3,800
72
NEAL PALMER
Firelight Diptych
Acrylic on two boards 79.2 x 240
Signed & dated 2008
8,000 - 10,000
73 MICHAEL SMITHER
Morning Squall
Screenprint 36 x 43
Signed, inscribed & numbered 1/39/74
800 - 1,200
74 JAN NIGRO
Mykonos
Pastel on paper 74.5 x 108.5
Signed & dated 1988
3,000 - 4,000
Signed & dated 2011
4,000 - 5,000
“This is the latest in a series of works - and the first where I’ve used a north facing perspective, taking in the harbour bridge. It’s also unique in that I’ve included man made elements such as the stone wall and the tourist hand rails.” Justin Summerton
GRAHAME SYDNEY
Road to Lauder
Lithograph, Edition of 50 50 x 60
Signed, inscribed & dated Feb 2007
1,200 - 1,600
“The image is from a study drawn beside the Pig Root Highway, State 85, about 12kms from my Cambrian home in Central Otago; a road sign of uncertain meaning stands out starkly against a cloudless sky, a black diamond silhouette against the falling night. Far away to the south the line of the Old Man Range sinks into the gathering shadow across the landscape.”
Grahame Sydney
75 JUSTIN SUMMERTON
Mt Eden Oil on canvas 91 x 121
78 PETER O’HAGEN
77 JUSTIN SUMMERTON Whareakeake Oil on canvas 122 x 167
Signed & dated 2011 5,000 - 7,000
In The Drawing Room
Watercolour 50 x 60
Signed & dated 1995 800 - 1,200
79 JOHN WEEKS Eel Composition
Mixed media on paper 25 x 32
800 - 1,200
Certificate of Authenticity from Artist’s Estate affixed verso
Rose Study I
Alkyd
Signed, dated 1984
2,000 - 3,000
Rose Study II
Alkyd resin on canvas 100 x 74
Signed, dated 1984
2,000 - 3,000
Signed 1,200 - 1,600
85 JOHN F BUCKLEY
resin on canvas 100 x 74
86 JOHN F BUCKLEY
87 BESSIE CHRISTIE
Old Villas, Grafton Watercolour 25 x 30
Untitled Crayon on paper 35 x 47
Signed & dated 1985
800 - 1,200
89
Headlands and Harbour
Pastel on paper 35 x 47
Signed & dated 1968
800 - 1,200
Ralph Hotere, Painter, Port Chalmers
Photograph, Edition of 3 50.4 x 30.5 1,000 - 1,500
88 LOUISE HENDERSON
SHAY DOCKING
90 JOHN MCDERMOTT
Christine on Andy’s Couch
Acrylic on board 61 x 84
Signed
7,000 - 10,000
92
JUSTIN SUMMERTON
‘Reclining Eye’, Karekare Oil on canvas 45 x 45
Signed & dated 2006
2,000 - 2,500
“The ‘Reclining Eye’ was an idea I had for a figurative sculpture when I was in California in 1995. I painted a couple of landscapes with it in and exhibited them in Mendocino and in San Francisco. It’s essentially an Eye and a reclining body morphed into one. I reintroduced the idea into this Karekare beachscape when I was living out there. The rock it stands next to is the Split Pin’ - an integral part of the volcanic landscape - the epicentre of the volcom. Together they make an interesting connection, like a powerful mercurial natural sculpture and a man made idol of peace and enlightenment.” Justin Summerton
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STEVE HARRIS
Still Life with 14th Century Dish
Acrylic on canvas 54.5 x 85.5
Signed. Inscribed verso 4,000 - 6,000 94
Acrylic on board 43 x 56.5
Signed 4,500 - 5,500
GEOFF WILLIAMS
STEVE HARRIS Red Apples
Signed 2,000 - 3,000
1,000 - 1,600
95 WILLIAM JAMES REED Self Portrait and Still Life Oil on board 46.5 x 54
96 ALICE F WHYTE Lachenalias Oil on board 50 x 34
Nude Study
Watercolour and charcoal on paper 46.3 x 66
Signed & dated 1995
1,500 - 2,000
Resting Oil on canvas 49 x 58
Signed & dated 1991. Inscribed verso
2,750 - 4,000
Nude, 1987
Oil on board 70.2 x 60.1
Signed & dated 1987
4,500 - 5,500
98 GARTH TAPPER
99 TREVOR MOFFITT
97 JAN NIGRO
100 JANE EVANS
Untitled Landscape
Ink on paper 18 x 24.5
Signed & dated 1970
100 - 300
101
JANE EVANS
Lovers
Lithograph, Edition of 16 58 x 48
Signed, inscribed & dated 1993
400 - 600
102
JANE EVANS
Still Life with Flowers
Lithograph, Edition of 25 27 x 29
Paper size 37 x 55.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1986
200 - 400
103
JUSTIN SUMMERTON
Emigration
Oil on canvas 60 x 70
Signed & dated 2004
3,000 - 4,000
Note: Painted whilst the artist was residing in London, 2004
104
JANE EVANS
Iris
Watercolour 40 x 60
Signed & dated 1988
3,500 - 5,500
105 JANE EVANS
Red & Yellow Flowers
Watercolour 40 x 60
Signed & dated 1988
3,500 - 5,500
Signed
Signed 1,500 -
106 IVY FIFE Mountains, Cass Gouache 36 x 44
1,500 - 2,500 106 107
107 E MERVYN TAYLOR Country Road Watercolour 27 x 29.5
2,000
A Days Work
Oil on board 41 x 63
Signed
Inscribed on original label affixed verso 4,000 - 6,000
Helen Flora Victoria Scales was born in Lower Hutt on 24 May 1887. She attended the Canterbury College School of Art and exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1906. In 1908 Scales left for England to attend Calderon’s School of Animal Painting. A work from this period, Cattle Mustering in New Zealand was hung at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1911.
Returning to New Zealand Scales joined the Academy Studio Club in 1914. By 1928 the artist was studying in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and then Munich’s Hans Hofmann School of Art where she was introduced to Hofmann’s principles of modernism. On her return to New Zealand in 1934 she passed on these principals to Toss Woollaston. Apart from Woollaston, W. H. Allen and Frederick Page, few in New Zealand understood that modernism featured in her work.
In late 1935 Scales returned to paint in England and France. She attended lectures at the Académie Ranson and in 1959 the Heatherley School of Fine Art. During World War II she was interned for two years in France.
In 1972 Flora Scales resettled in New Zealand, in 1975 a solo exhibition was arranged by Colin McCahon at the Auckland City Art Gallery. Scales died in 1985. Most of her work is in private ownership in New Zealand, her papers and paintings are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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108 FLORA SCALES
Signed 1,500 - 2,500
Signed 1,200 - 1,800
Signed & inscribed 1,500 - 2,500
Signed & dated 1906 2,500 - 3,500
109 COLIN LOVELL-SMITH
Canterbury Landscape Oil on canvas 40 x 50
110 COLIN LOVELL-SMITH
Lake Shore Oil on board 34 x 43
111 ALFRED WILSON WALSH On the Teremakau Watercolour 43 x 63
112 THOMAS DERBY RYAN Mt Ruapehu Watercolour 45 x 67
113 VERA CUMMINGS
A Maori Maiden Oil on canvas 29 x 24
Signed 4,500 - 6,500
These three works by Vera Cummings have been held in a private Auckland collection for over sixty years. They are offered in original kauri frames produced exclusively for the artist Charles Frederick Goldie by his framer John Leech. This distinctive moulding is known as the ‘Goldie’ frame. It is unusual to see the work of another artist presented in this manner, but then again, Vera Cummings was Goldie's leading pupil.
Veronica (Vera) Cummings 1891 - 1949
At the age of eleven she (Vera Cummings) was awarded a scholarship to attend Elam School of Fine Arts. She was one of the youngest pupils to attend the school. From here she became a pupil of Goldie, and was considered the only one to produce the same natural colour of Maori skin as Goldie painted. Her studies of Maoris were in great demand for sending overseas and as well as choosing the same subjects as Goldie, for example Sophia Grey (Guide Sophia), she painted many other well known Maori's from the Auckland area.
Page 157 C.F. Goldie Prints, Drawings & Criticism Alistair Taylor & Jan Glen. First Published 1979 by Alistair Taylor, Wairua, Martinborough, New Zealand.
114 VERA CUMMINGS
He Timo-Toa (Great Warrior) Oil on canvas 29 x 24
Signed 4,500 - 6,500
115 VERA CUMMINGS
Toa-Rangatira (Brave Chief) Oil on canvas 29 x 24
Signed 4,500 - 6,500
116 D J RAMAGE
War Ruins, San Michele Etching, Edition of 12 17 x 11.8
Signed & inscribed.
400 - 600
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115
119
A Canterbury Stream Oil on canvas 50 x 60
Signed
7,000 - 10,000
Fishing Boats, St Ives Oil on canvas 60 x 75
Signed
2,500 - 3,500
Tertiary Education Oil on board 30 x 40
Signed & dated 1967
400 - 600
117
SYDNEY LOUGH THOMPSON
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118
CECIL FLETCHER KELLY
GERALD MAHON
Riding at Low Tide Oil on board 49 x 59.5
Signed 1,800 - 2,500
Signed & dated 1995
Inscribed on label affixed verso 1,400 - 1,600
Signed
1,000 - 1,500
120 RUSSELL HOLLINGS Ponsonby Alleyway Oil on board 63 x 74
121 RUSSELL HOLLINGS
122 RUSSELL HOLLINGS Dry January Oil on board 34 x 44
123 CLARK ESPLIN Musicians
Oil on board 100 x 146
Signed & dated 1999 1,000 - 2,000
124 E MERVYN TAYLOR Kotuku
Wood engraving Edition of 30 12.5 x 8.5
Signed & inscribed
800 - 1,200
125 E MERVYN TAYLOR Toadstools
Wood engraving Edition of 30 13.5 x 11
Signed & inscribed
700 - 1,000
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E MERVYN TAYLOR Parawai, Thames Watercolour 18.5 x 25.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 9 Jan 1952
800 - 1,200
Mission Bay Art & Craft Market
Watercolor 39 x 56
Signed
1,000 - 1,500
Watercolour 35 x 45
Signed
800 - 1,200
Wood engraving Edition of 25 10.2 x 12.4
Signed & inscribed
700 - 1,000
129
PEGGY SPICER
Grafton Bridge
127 PEGGY SPICER
128 E MERVYN TAYLOR Shells
Signed & dated 1947. Inscribed verso 800 - 1,500
The works of popular Waikato artist and teacher Ida Carey 1891 - 1982 have received increased market attention over recent years. During the 1920s whilst based in Sydney, Ida studied with Italian artist Anthony Dattilo Rubbo 1870 - 1955. Best known as a portrait painter, in the 1960s she began a series featuring Maori women with Moko. A versatile artist, Ida was also a competent painter of interiors, landscapes, still life and ballet scenes.
She was a founding member of the Waikato Society of Arts, becoming President in 1934. She succeeded fellow artist Ivy Copeland (1895 - 1961) as a lecturer at Auckland College of Education and taught art in several Hamilton schools. Represented: Christchurch Art Gallery, Rotorua Museum, Waikato Museum. A collection of her paintings are on permanent exhibition at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth. The present works are from the artist’s Estate Collection.
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130 IDA H CAREY Maraetai Beach Oil on board 28.5 x 36
131 IDA H CAREY Portrait Oil on board 41 x 30 600 - 900
132
IDA CAREY Interior of Artist’s Home Oil on board 32 x 27 600 - 900
Haast
Oil on board 48 x 59
Signed & dated 1967. Inscribed verso
2,000 - 3,000
Landscape Composition
Oil resin and acrylic on board 49 x 63
Signed & dated 6/1975
800 - 1,200
133 DOUGLAS BADCOCK
River, Haast Pass
134 W BASIL HONOUR
DOUGLAS BADCOCK
Black Poplars in Autumn Oil on board 34 x 47
Signed 2,500 - 3,500
136 GASTON DE VEL
Trafalgar Square Oil on canvas 40 x 50
Signed & dated 1970
1,000 - 1,500
137 TOM ESPLIN
Banks of the Seine, Paris Oil on board 28.4 x 42.5
Signed 3,500 - 4,500
138 TOM ESPLIN
Banks of the Cher, France Oil on board 20 x 40.4
Signed 3,500 - 4,500
139
DOUGLAS BADCOCK
Scallop Boats Oil on board 29.5 x 40
Signed & dated 1979
3,500 - 4,500
140 BRIAN HALLIDAY
Relics of the Past Oil on board 36 x 49
Signed & dated 1973 Inscribed verso
500 - 800
141 WAYNE SINCLAIR
Mangapehi - Old Saw Mill Town Oil on board 59 x 90
Signed
550 - 850
142
DOUGLAS BADCOCK
Autumn, Speargrass Flat Oil on board 25 x 34.5
Signed
2,500 - 3,500
143
JOHN DOUGLAS PERRETT
Mokia Island, Rotorua Oil on board 14.4 x 19.7
Signed
400 - 600
Signed 1,800 - 2,500
144 ASTON GREATHEAD
Bealey River Bed Oil on board 39.5 x 55 Signed
145 DOUGLAS BADCOCK Riverton Rocks Oil on board 29.5 x 40
Michael at Home
Screenprint, Edition of 50 Artist’s Proof 68 x 50
Signed & dated 1978 on the plate
1,500 - 2,500
147 ANNIE BAIRD
Nicky with Elephants
Oil on board 60 x 60
Signed & dated 73
800 - 1,200
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GRAHAME SYDNEY
Palmyra Street, Dunedin
Pencil and ink on paper 38 x 45.5
Signed, inscribed & dated Feb 2nd, 1967
800 - 1,200
149
JOHN WEEKS
Northcote Garden Landscape Oil on board 40 x 50
Signed 3,000 - 5,000
150
IDA G EISE
Orakei Hills Oil on board 33 x 40
Signed & dated 1947
1,000 - 2,000
151
PHILIP HOLMES
Portrait of a Maori Girl Oil on board 25 x 18.3
Signed 1,500 - 2,000
152
NUGENT WELCH
View of the Dart Valley at the Head of Lake Wakatipu
Watercolour 18.2 x 17.5
Signed
700 - 1,100
153
CYNTHIA TAYLOR
The Morning Light, Pie Mellon Bay, Waiheke Island
Acrylic on board 54.5 x 57.5
Signed
500 - 1,000
154
MARCUS KING
Where the Land Meets the Sea
Oil on board 34.5 x 35.5
Signed & dated 1927
500 - 1,000
Old Bridge - Ball Hut Road, Mt Cook National Park Oil on canvas 50 x 60
Signed & dated 1973
1,000 - 2,000
Provenance
Artist’s Estate Collection
156 GASTON DE VEL
Reflections, West Coast Oil on canvas 50 x 60
Signed & dated 1972
1,000 - 2,000
Provenance
Artist’s Estate Collection
155
GASTON DE VEL
157 JOHN WEEKS
El Maiz, Stronghold in Desert Watercolour 26 x 37
Signed & dated 1927
1,500 - 2,500
158 JOHN WEEKS
An Imposing Facade Morocco c1927-1928
Mixed media 26.5 x 36.5
1,000 - 1,500
159 IVY M COPELAND
Spring Trees, Cambridge Watercolour 22 x 13.5
Signed 400 - 600
Signed 3,000 - 4,000
Macrocarpa, Tomahawk Beach Oil on board 34 x 44 Signed 1,100 - 1,400
Signed 1,100 - 1,400
160 PETER O’HAGEN
The Arabian Night Dream Gouache on paper 88 x 77
161 BRIAN BADCOCK
162 BRIAN BADCOCK Willows, Taylor River Oil on board 29 x 39
166 J T STEWART
Wanganui - Inner Harbour
Watercolour 14.5 x 51.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1897
400 - 600
167
WILLIAM MENZIES-GIBB
Harvesting
Watercolour 16 x 34.5
Signed
400 - 600
168 JOHN DOUGLAS PERRETT
Moonrise
Pastel 22 x 52
Signed
450 - 750
169 JOHN MCINTOSH MADDEN
Nelson Landscape
Watercolour 25 x 35
Signed
500 - 800
170 ALF GASSTON
Kingfisher Oil on canvas 13.5 x 18.5
Signed & dated 1891
400 - 600
171 JAMES PEELE
Yarra River, Melbourne Oil on board 29 x 45
Signed & dated 1891. Inscribed verso
800 - 1,200
172 JAMES PEELE
Fern Tree Gully Near Melbounre Oil on board 45 x 29
Signed & dated 1893. Inscribed verso
800 - 1,200
173
BLYTHE FLETCHER
Boat and Figure in Landscape
Watercolour 45 x 49.6
Signed & dated 1920
500 - 1,000
174 PETER POWER
Pelichet Bay North Dunedin Oil on board 24.5 x 44.5
Signed
500 - 800
175 GUY HUZE
Tahiti
Gouache 23 x 63
Signed & inscribed
500 - 800
176 JOHN DOUGLAS PERRETT
Evening Lake Te Anau
Pastel 29.5 x 46.5
Signed
450 - 750
176
172
177 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
Mountain Scene, Southland
Watercolour 75 x 60
Signed
4,500 - 7,000
178
THOMAS REGINALD ATTWOOD
Doubtful Sound
Oil on board 77 x 48
Signed
500 - 1,000
179 FRANK WRIGHT
Waikato River
Watercolour 18 x 32.5
Signed
400 - 600
180
ETHEL RICHARDSON
Coastal Scene with Sheep Oil on Board 22 x 27
Signed
800 - 1,200
181
ERIC LEE JOHNSON
Lion Rock, Piha
Watercolour 33 x 46
Signed & dated 1943
500 - 1,000
182
ERIC N GULLY
Manukau from Titirangi
Watercolour 15.5 x 25
Signed & dated 1932
200 - 400
183
E HERBER THOMPSON
Eastern Boat Scene
Watercolour 27 x 39
Signed
500 - 1,000
184
KITTY AIRINI VANE
Arum Lillies
Gouache on paper 37 x 48
Signed & dated 1930
500 - 800
185
NUGENT WELCH
Kaikoura Coast
Watercolour 27 x 36
Signed
500 - 800
186
KITTY AIRINI VANE
Tasman Range
Gouache on paper 35 x 54
Signed & dated 1941
500 - 800
187 JOHN WEEKS
Landscape from Pigeon Hill, Howick
Oil on board 35.5 x 50
Signed 2,500 - 3,500
188 JOHN WEEKS
Rug Design
Mixed media on paper 30 x 24.5
800 - 1,200
189 COLIN V WHEELER
School, Central Otago
Acrylic and ink on paper 25.5 x 31
Signed, inscribed & dated 1982
800 - 1,200
190 A AUSTIN DEANS
Sunset, Mt Peel
Oil on board 34 x 43
Signed & dated 1953
800 - 1,200
191 TIM WILSON
Peach Silhouette
Oil on canvas 40 x 40
Signed
800 - 1,500
192 TIM WILSON
Lillies
Oil on canvas 90 x 60
Signed 4,000 - 6,000
Signed 800 - 1,500
192
190
193 TIM WILSON Tribute to Monet Oil on canvas 60 x 46
193
194 R J WAGHORN
Waipatiki Beach
Watercolour 37 x 45.5
Signed & dated 1937
400 - 600
195 R J WAGHORN
Kenepuru Sound
Watercolour 26 x 37
Signed & dated 1929
400 - 600
196 R J WAGHORN
Winter in the Back Country
Watercolour 28 x 38
Signed
400 - 600
197 R J WAGHORN
Island Composition
Watercolour 40 x 47
Signed & dated 1953
400 - 600
198 H W PATTLE
Port Chalmers Dunedin Oil on board 54 x 36
Signed 1,200 - 1,800
Signed
800 - 1,200
Tahitian Sunset Oil on velvet 68 x 89
Signed 1,200 - 1,800
Charles McPhee was one of the original velvet painters. He studied with the founder of this genere of painting, American Edgar Leetag (1904-1954). In the early years, velvet painting was cast as a unique new style that enabled the artist to render life forms into touchable lifelike images that conveyed a sense of being there. McPhee enjoyed immense success from the first days of his debute, he was always one year behind with his portrait schedule. His popularity was such that his exhibitions were always sell outs. McPhee died in Auckland in November 2002 at the age of 92.
A documentary titled 'Velvet Dreams' was directed by award winning Samoan director Sima Urale in 1998. The narrator meets velvet artists and collectors in Seattle, Arthur Leeteg's widow in Tahiti, art historians in Auckland and, finally the then 88 year-old velvet painter, adventurer and party boy, Charles McPhee.
A Collection of Charles McPhee Velvet Paintings Lots 200 - 207
200 CHARLES MCPHEE
200
199 VERA WHITEMAN
Dog Study Oil on board 32 x 29
202
Signed & inscribed 1,000 - 1,400
203
204
205
CHARLES MCPHEE
Mareva II Oil on velvet 90 x 67
Signed 1,000 - 1,400
CHARLES MCPHEE
Mareva Oil on velvet 88 x 67
Signed 1,000 - 1,400
CHARLES MCPHEE
Maori Woman Oil on velvet 91 x 67
Signed 1,000 - 1,500
CHARLES MCPHEE
Tawahaki Oil on velvet 90 x 72
Signed & inscribed 1,000 - 1,500
206 CHARLES MCPHEE
Old Maori Chief Oil on velvet 90 x 65
Signed 1,000 - 1,500
207 CHARLES MCPHEE
Signed & inscribed 1,000 - 1,500 202
Nani Oil on velvet 96 x 72
201 CHARLES MCPHEE Mareva I Oil on velvet 90 x 67
208 CHARLES DIXON
British 1872 - 1934
Pool of London
Watercolour 37.5 x 58.5
Signed & dated 1890
1,000 - 1,500
209 ARTIST UNKNOWN
20th Century European Rotterdam Shipping Oil on canvas 39.5 x 79 Signed Motema 800 - 1,200
210 JOHN R PRENTICE
European 19th Century Sunset Holy Island Lindisfarne, Northumberland Oil on canvas 39 x 59.5
Signed & inscribed verso 2,400 - 2,800
213 THEO GRIMANES
Australian 1887 - 1954
Sydney
Oil on canvas on board 21 x 35
Signed. Inscribed ‘Sydney’ verso
500 - 1,000
Provenance: Ida H Carey Estate Collection
214 W HUNT
British 19th Century
Gratitude
Watercolour 38 x 27.5
800 - 1,200
215 ARTIST UNKNOWN
European 19th Century
Mother and Children
Oil on canvas 21 x 21
400 - 600
216 HARRY ROUNTREE
New Zealand/British 1878 - 1950
Doves Grey Oil on canvas 112 x 91
Signed
800 - 1,200
217 SIMONETTI
Italian 20th Century
Mediterranean Port Scene Oil on canvas 50 x 60
Signed 1,000 - 1,500
218 ARTIST UNKNOWN
European 19th Century
A European Cityscape
Watercolour 16 x 27
Inscribed Wargrave, 1865 verso
300 - 500
219 VICTOR LORENGA
Napoli - Naples
Watercolour 21 x 12
Signed
800 - 1,200
220 PEGGY SPIICER
Three South Island Scenes
Watercolour 16 x 21
Two signed 800 - 1,200
Two illustrated left
Note: This lot also includes three prints by the artist
221 MANU BERRY
Holy Ghost
Woodcut edition of 22 75 x 57
Signed & inscribed 450 - 650
222
PATERSON PARKIN
Violinist
Oil on canvas 40 x 38
Signed & dated 1999
500 - 1,000
223 RUBY HUSTON
Beurre Bosc
Oil on canvas 45.5 x 50
Signed & dated 1998 1,200 - 1,500
Provenance:
From the set of Shortland Street ( 5 years )
224 RUBY HUSTON
Red Pears on Blue Stark Crimson
Oil on canvas 45 x 45
Signed & dated 1995 1,200 - 1,500
Provenance:
From the set of Shortland Street ( 5 years )
225 BRIAN STRONG
Honorarium 2000 IX
Mixed media on paper 44 x 56
Signed, inscribed & dated 2000
800 - 1,200
226 MICHAEL EBEL
Enveloped
Pencil and charcoal 42 x 32
Signed
400 - 600
Provenance:
Ex Ministry of Foreign Affairs Collection
Label affixed verso
227
MICHAEL SHEPHERD
Untitled Two Pillars
Oil on board 23 x 22
300 - 500
HENRY WILLIAM KIRKWOOD
Lake Manapouri Oil on board 21.5 x 26.5
Signed
400 - 600
229
JOHN WEEKS
Landscape with Buildings
Watercolour 25 x 34
Signed
800 - 1,200
230
MINNIE WHITE
Mamaku Forest
Crayon and watercolour on paper 26 x 36
Signed
300 - 500
231
MINNIE WHITE
Industrial Sketch
Watercolour 36 x 43
Signed
300 - 500
232
JOHN MCINTOSH MADDEN
Ships on Coast, Early Morning Oil on board 22 x 61
Signed
300 - 600
MICHAEL SMITHER
The Pianist
Pencil on paper 19 x 24
Signed & dated 1970 400 - 600
DICK FRIZZELL
Sambuca
Screenprint, Edition of 50, 75 x 52
Signed & dated 1996
800 - 1,200
235
ALLEN MADDOX
Untitled
Lithograph edition of 32 32 x 38
Signed
200 - 300
236
BILL BURKE
Low Tide, Oriental Bay, Wellington Oil on canvas 73 x 88
Signed & dated 2004
800 - 1,200
237
CANDY CLARKE
Still Life
Acrylic and plaster on board 30 x 29
Signed & dated 1996
400 - 600
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ALLPRESS S 3
ANDREASEND R 49
ARMITAGE D ..................................... 42
ATTWOOD T R 178
BADCOCK D 133, 135, 139, 142, 145
BADCOCK B ............................ 161, 162
BAIRD A 147
BERRY M 221
BRAUNIAS M 50
BUCKLEY J F 85, 86
BURKE B 236
CAMPBELL D M 46
CAREY IDA 131, 132, 130
CHRISTIE B 87
CLAIRMONT P 58
CLARKE C 237
CLEVERLEY P 27
COPELAND I M 159
CUMMINGS V 113, 114, 115
DE VEL G ......................... 136, 155, 156
DEANS A A 190
DIXON C 208
DOCKING S ....................................... 89
DOLEZEL J 39
DWYER J 43
EBEL M 226
EISE I G 150
ESPLIN T 137, 138
ESPLIN C 123
EVANS J 100, 101, 102, 104, 105
FAIREY S 48
FIFE I G 106
FLETCHER B 173
FRIZZELL D ...... 36, 63, 65, 66, 67, 234
GASSTON A 170
GAULDIE M 80, 82, 84
GEORGE D .......................................... 9
GIMBLETT M 18
GRAHAM A 212
GREATHEAD A 144
GRIMANES T 213
GULLY E N 182
HALLIDAY B 140
HAMMOND B 12
HAMMOND & GAVIN C B 13
HARRIS S 93, 94
HARRIS J 37
HARRISON M..................................... 14
HARTIGAN P 53
HENDERSON L 88
HILL N ................................................ 32
HOLLINGS R 120, 121, 122
HOLMES P 151
HONOUR W B 134
HOYTE J B C ................................... 177 HUGHES S 2 HUNT W 214
HUSTON R ............................... 223, 224
HUZE G 175
JAMES S P 57
KELLY C F 118
KIDD H 34 KING M 154
KIRKWOOD H W 228
KOONS J 1
LANDER M 28
LANE T 11
LEE J E 181
LORENGA V 219
LOVELL-SMITH C 109, 110
MADDEN J M 169, 232
MADDOX A............... 30, 55, 59, 61, 235
MAHON G 119
MAUGHAN K 16, 33, 64
MCDERMOTT J ................................. 90
MCINTYRE S 45
MCPHEE C 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
MEEK C 54
MENZIES-GIBB W
MRKUSICH
O’HAGEN P 78, 160 OXBOROUGH P ................................ 62
PALMER N 72
PANYOCZKI P 5
PARDINGTON F 24
PARKER J S 56, 71 PARKIN P 222 PATERSON R 25
PATTLE H W 198
PEARLESS J 52
PEELE J 171, 172
PERRETT J D 143, 168, 176
PETRE M...................................... 23, 40 POWER P 174
PRENTICE J R 210
RADFORD J ......................................... 6
RAMAGE D J 116
REED W J 95 REWIRI K T W 31, 38, 70
REYNOLDS J ..................................... 10 RICHARDSON E 180
ROSS J 35
ROSS SMITH B ............................ 21, 83 ROUNTREE H 216 RYAN T D 112 SCALES F 108 SHEEHAN J 44 SHEPHERD M 227
SIDDELL P 41 SIMONETTI 217
SINCLAIR W 141
SMITH M 47
SMITHER M 73, 233
SPICER P 127, 129, 220
STEWART J T 166
STRONG B 225
SUMMERTON J ............. 75, 77, 92, 103
SYDNEY G 76, 148
SZYDLOWSKI H 68, 69
TAPPER G .......................................... 98
TAYLOR C 153
TAYLOR E MERVYN 107, 124, 125, 126, 128
THOMPSON R 7
THOMPSON S L 117
THOMPSON E H 183
TOMKINS R 60
UNKNOWN A 209, 215, 218
VANE K A 184, 186
WAGHORN R J 194, 195, 196, 197
WALSH J ............................................ 22
WALSH A W 111
WALSH J 19
WATKINS D ..................................... 8 26
WEEKS J 79, 149, 157, 158, 187, 188, 229
WELCH N 152, 185
WHEELER C V 189
WHITE R 146
WHITE M F 230, 231
WHITEMAN V E 199
WHITEOAK C 163, 164
WHYTE A F 96
WILLIAMS S 165
WILLIAMS G....................................... 91
WILLIAMS M 29
WILSON T 191, 192, 193
WOODHAM D .................................... 51
WRIGHT F 179
