2012 - Experience Equals Results
2012 was another great year for International Art Centre and the New Zealand art market as a whole.
Numerous record prices and positive results were achieved at both our Important, Early & Rare and Contemporary & Collectable Art auctions. Demand for rare 19th & 20th Century paintings of quality is the strongest seen in decades.
Consistency, exceptional catalogues, experience and integrity sets us aside as New Zealand’s only auctioneers specialising solely in art.
We look forward to welcoming our clients, friends and artists to the auctions and exhibitions planned throughout the year and wish everyone a successful 2013.
THE ONLY AUCTIONEERS OF PICTURES EXCLUSIVELY
John Leech Gallery Collection - 27 February 2013
The opening of John Leech Gallery in 1855 was heralded by the following announcement in Auckland’s Southern Cross newspaper:
John Leech respectfully announces to the inhabitants of Auckland, that he has commenced business in High Street, opposite the Wesleyan Chapel as carver, gilder, picture framer and looking glass manufacturer. Having had considerable experience in the above-named branches, he is quite confident of giving the most perfect satisfaction to those who might favour him with an order.
John Leech had emigrated to Auckland from Manchester via Sydney. In 1866 he moved his business to Shortland Street, then considered to be the finest of locations. It was here that artists such as Charles Goldie, Gustavus von Tempsky, Alfred Sharpe and J.B.C. Hoyte met and displayed their work. John Leech Gallery operated from these premises until 1963.
Following its founder's death in 1879, the venture continued to flourish under the management of John’s son Harold. It was during his lifetime that the honour of using a royal crest was granted. Harold Leech died in 1945 and the following year Allan Swinton, Gilbert Meadows and Howard Newcomb purchased the gallery.
Allan Swinton gained sole ownership in 1959. In 1963 the gallery moved to Lorne Street where Swinton created a specialist framing division and exhibition gallery. Under Allan Swinton's committed management the firm prospered. Another move, this time to Albert Street took place in 1973. The original building was demolished to make way for Lorne Towers.
In 1974 Allan Swinton sold his gallery to a collector of maps and three years later it was purchased by Bev and Murray Gow and Bill Hart. In 1980 Murray Gow purchased the Dunham Gallery, Remuera re-naming it John Leech Gallery, Remuera. The city branch of John Leech Gallery operated until 1986 when the building was purchased by Chase Corporation. The gallery relocated to expanded Remuera premises.
In 2002, under the highly successful partnership of John Gow and Gary Langsford, John Leech Gallery returned to Auckland City and its well-known Kitchener Street location, directly opposite Auckland Art Gallery. Over a decade later, having served as the venue for many of this country's most important exhibitions, John Leech Gallery has been renamed Gow Langsford Gallery, and now occupies two central Auckland sites.
A Director's decision to re brand and focus on International and Contemporary New Zealand art, affords a unique opportunity to acquire works from the collection of Auckland's historic John Leech Gallery.
1 TONY LANE
Leg with Representations of Infinity
Shagmetal and oil on gesso panel
183.5 x 29.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1989 verso
3,000 - 5,000
2 FREDA SIMMONDS
Torea - Pied Oyster Catcher
Oil on board 160 x 60
Signed & dated 1968
800 - 1,200
3 PARA MATCHITT
Te Kooti Series (3)
Three screenprints, edition of 12
Signed, inscribed & dated 1967
5 SIMON KAAN
Untitled - From Workers Bed Series
Oil on two wooden panels 176 x 188
Signed & dated 2004 - 05 8,000 - 12,000
Exhibited: Oil on Workers’ Beds, Webb’s 2006
This work was completed whilst the artist was on his Creative New Zealand funded residency in Beijing.
Our thanks to Simon Kaan for his assistance in cataloguing this work
JESSON
x 127.5
3 Figures
Oil on board 39.5 x 52.5
Signed, inscribed & dated June 1972 verso
1500 - 2,500
Signed 4,000 - 6,000
Fresh
Trouble Peppers
Acrylic on paper 20.5 x 14
Signed, inscribed & dated 1/4/2003
800 - 1,200
6 RALPH HOTERE
Untitled Woman
Gouache on paper 36.5 x 26.5
7 JEFFREY HARRIS
8 DICK FRIZZELL
Cucumber
Study from an Italian Master Oil on board 42 x 60 3,000 - 5,000
Provenance: Ex Fomison Estate - includes Tony Fomison’s signature affixed verso together with Tony Fomison Estate stamp
Rotorua Art Gallery Loan Collection, label affixed verso
Back Beach, New Plymouth Oil on board 40.5 x 30.3
5,000 - 7,000
9 JEFFREY HARRIS
10 MICHAEL SMITHER
Untitled Oil on plywood door from artist’s Ponsonby flat 205 x 83 2,000 - 4,000
11 ALLEN MADDOX
The Monkey’s Revenge
Acrylic on paper 38 x 57.5
Signed & dated 18 December 1986
2,000 - 3,000 13
Flying Oaf
Gouache on paper 18.5 x 18.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 10/5/2002
1,500 - 2,500
Untitled (Hell / Heaven)
Pencil on paper 17 x 25
Signed & dated 1980
400 - 600
Natura Morta 5 Hepetema
Mixed media on paper 38 x 28.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1993
800 - 1,200
Untitled
Mixed media on paper 38 x 28.5
2,500 - 3,500
Skinning
Oil on board 52 x 52
Signed & dated 1980. Inscribed verso
6,000 - 9,000
RICHARD KILLEEN
DICK FRIZZELL
14 JEFFREY HARRIS
15 ROBERT ELLIS
16
ALLEN MADDOX
17 TREVOR MOFFITT
Signed & dated 27/1/1987
10,000 - 15,000
6,000 - 8,000
18 DICK FRIZZELL
Self Portrait
Oil on board 178 x 90
19 ALLEN MADDOX
Untitled 1989
Oil on hessian 57 x 70
20 ROBERT ELLIS
Motorway Journey
Oil on board 89.5 x 89.5
Signed & dated 1970
8,000 - 12,000
21 COLIN MCCAHON
Three 1958
Brush and ink on paper 63.2 x 50.6
Signed & dated 1958
40,000 - 60,000
Provenance:
From the Numerals One to Ten series Colin McCahon online catalogue reference number cm001511 mccahon.co.nz
Exhibited:
Paintings by Colin McCahon, November 1958 - August 1959, Gallery 91, 6-18 October 1959 cat. no. 5
Reference Lots 21 & 22:
Of the ten works in this series Two is in the collection of the New Dowse, Lower Hutt and Six is in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki. Ten is whereabouts unknown and the remaining works One, Five, Seven, Eight and Nine are in a private collection.
22 COLIN MCCAHON
Four 1958
Brush and ink on paper 62.5 x 46.5
Signed & dated 1958
40,000 - 60,000
Provenance:
From the Numerals One to Ten series Colin McCahon online catalogue reference number cm001329 mccahon.co.nz
Exhibited:
Paintings by Colin McCahon, November 1958 - August 1959, Gallery 91, 6-18 October 1959
Untitled (Green and White Abstract)
Acrylic on canvas 99 x 63.5
Signed & dated 1979
2,000 - 3,000
24 JANE EVANS
In the Garden
Watercolour 58 x 76
Signed 4,000 - 6,000
Boats, Okahu Bay
Oil on board 120 x 178
Signed & dated 1998
20,000 - 30,000
23 LOUISE HENDERSON
25 MICHAEL SMITHER
26 RICHARD KILLEEN
Time to Change Male Institutionalised War
Acrylic, ink and collage on paper 76 x 58
Signed, inscribed & dated 16/6/1986
5,000 - 7,000
27 GORDON WALTERS
Airborne
Gouache on paper 23 x 30
Signed & inscribed
25,000 - 35,000
Outskirts of the Town, Bonsada
Watercolour 36 x 49
Signed & dated 1923
1,500 - 2,500 29
Sea and Countryside
Watercolour 37 x 46
Signed & dated 1925
1,500 - 2,500
Southern Cross 1st Flight to New Zealand from Australia
Oil on board 42.5 x 63.5
Signed & inscribed
2,000 - 4,000
28 OWEN MERTON
OWEN MERTON
30 PATRICK HAYMAN
31 RAYMOND MCINTYRE
Figures with Umbrella, London Oil on board 33.5 x 25
Signed
35,000 - 45,000
Figures with Umbrella, London c.1915 is a quintessential Mclntyre streetscape. While the brush work is fluid, the composition is refined and stylised, and a delicate precision lends Figures with Umbrella, London a quiet confidence.
Like many successful painters of his age, Raymond Mclntyre left New Zealand as a young adult and made Europe his home. From 1909 to his death in 1933 he lived in London, where he was actively engaged with the contemporary trends in European Art which he had found inaccessible from New Zealand. In London he began a period of intensive study and painting and exhibited frequently over the next decade, particularly at the Goupil Gallery Salon, London’s leading international gallery at the time. His work was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in 1924 and he ceased to exhibit his work publicly in 1926.
The two figures in the foreground are constructed in careful greys and although they are the subject of this work, McIntyre’s primary concern is in the design and formal relationship within the image. Subtle tonal contrasts and exquisite brushwork create a deeply elegant work.
Hour Series
Oil on canvas 50.5 x 73
Signed
3,000 - 5,000
33 FRANCES HODGKINS
Arrangement of Jugs, 1938
Lithograph on paper, 46 x 61
Signed
Inscribed lower left: Published by Contemporary Lithographs Ltd, London
12,000 - 15,000
Reference:
Arrangement of Jugs (1938) is a lively and buoyant still life by renowned painter Frances Hodgkins. The edition of lithographs is Hodgkins’ only surviving print and was commissioned in 1936 by the London-based publisher Contemporary Lithographs Ltd as part of a venture to supply a wider audience with quality and affordable original works of art. Arrangement of Jugs is from the suite of fifteen prints by different artists launched in 1938, one of which was purchased by the British Museum.
Although she had not worked with lithography before Hodgkins was praised at the time for her fresh and innovative use of the medium and she herself ‘found it interesting and remunerative as a sideline to other works’.
(Kapiti Treasures, Janet Bayley (Edt.l, Mahara Gallery, 2010, p. 36)
Moving increasingly away from traditional modes of representation in her works, some objects in Arrangement of Jugs are pared back to their most essential formal elements or depicted through abstract bodies of colour. Essentially disregarding any hierarchy within the objects Hodgkins has employed several perspectives within a single composition giving the effect that some objects appear to float freely in space. The ethereal quality of the abstract forms combined with the objects depicted more literally adds dynamism and vivacity to the work.
The simplified outlines of objects and bold areas of colour in Arrangement of Jugs are typical of Hodgkins’ approach to colour and form in the mid to late 1930s and relate strongly to two known watercolours of almost identical titles, Still Life (c.1937) and Arrangement of Jugs (c.1937) suggesting that they may have been working drawings for the lithographs.
Illustrated:
Frances Hodgkins: Kapiti Treasures, Janet Bayley (Edt.), Mahara Gallery, 2010. p. 33
Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings, lain Buchanan, Elizabeth Eastmond and Michael Dunn, Auckland University Press, 1994. p.151
Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, E.H McCormick, Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press, 1981. p.123
Still Life (Organic)
Oil on canvas board 52 x 60
Signed verso 2,000 - 4,000
Mixed media on paper 63 x 64
Sigend & dated 1983
14,000 - 18,000
34 JOHN WEEKS
Water Carriers c. 1927
Watercolour 48 x 28.2 2,000 - 3,000 35 PATRICK HAYMAN
PAT HANLY
Field Yellow
Signed & dated 1987
800 - 1,500
Untitled Pastel on paper 44 x 55 Signed
800 - 1,200 39
Dancing Nudes Ink drawing 74 x .49.5
Signed & dated 1958
800 - 1,200
800 - 1,200
PATRICIA FRANCE Flowers in a Black Pot Oil on board 37.5 x 32.5
LOUISE HENDERSON
GABRIELLE HOPE
HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
41 CHRISTINA CONRAD
Krishna’s Birthday
Oil on
3,000
42 PETER MCINTYRE
Asian Woman in Coolie Hat
Oil on canvas 70 x 54
5,000 - 8,000
PERKINS
PETER MCINTYRE Homestead Makariki Valley near Wanganui
Canterbury Mill Oil on canvas 50 x 74
Signed & dated 1892
8,000 - 12,000
Paihia looking across to Kororareka (Russell)
Watercolour 17.5 x 21.5
Inscribed Paihia looking across to Kororareka
8,000 - 12,000
Littleton (Lyttelton)
Pencil on paper 15.5 x 21.2 1,000 - 1,500 49
Untitled (House with Bush Surround ) - Possibly Treaty House
Pencil on paper 16.5 x 21 1,000 - 1,500
JOHN GIBB
COLONEL ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD
48
COLONEL ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD
COLONEL ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD
50 COMMANDER RICHARD ALDWORTH OLIVER
Emily, A Maori Girl, Nauranga, A Maori Village
Near Wellington, January 1851
Watercolour & pencil on paper 30 x 22
Inscribed 3,000 - 5,000
51 COMMANDER RICHARD ALDWORTH OLIVER
Maori Girls, Auckland
Watercolour 37 x 26
Inscribed Maori Girls, Auckland NZ verso
5,000 - 8,000
52 COMMANDER RICHARD ALDWORTH OLIVER
Wangaru-ru, East Coast, Monk Island
Watercolour 36.5 x 25
4,000 - 6,000
54 ALFRED SHARPE
Nipped Between Icebergs
Watercolour 59 x 97
Signed, inscribed & dated 1898
40,000 - 60,000
Recent research suggests this is Alfred Sharpe’s interpretation of the dramatic scene in Antarctic waters on 6 February 1838. The two ships depicted are the French corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zélée. The Astrolabe is shown packed in by ice but the Zélée is also trapped. Zélée is shown about mid-right. The expedition was under the command of Dumont d’Urville a talented French mariner who had visited New Zealand twice before and he was about to make his third visit. He was a daring commander and is known for his skill in taking the Astrolabe through French Pass, NZ, in an earlier Pacific voyage. Very briefly the background to the voyage was that in 1836 Dumont d’Urville presented a proposal to the French authorities suggesting an expedition to the Pacific. King (or Emperor) Louis-Philippe was very interested in the idea and suggested the addition of a probe into Antarctic waters.
53 THOMAS WILLIAM DOWNES
800 - 1,200 53
Drawing for Old Wanganui Pah after Gillfillan
Pen and wash on paper 26.5 x 43
Inscribed & dated 1915 verso
After a long voyage, on February 2, 1838, the ships were sailing southwards in search of Antarctica. Within 48 hours they came upon an ice field. D’Urville followed it westwards and entered an inlet in the ice with Jacquinot, on the Zélée close behind. It was an unwise plan as during the night the ice cracked and crunched and by morning the channel had closed behind the ships. Men climbed down onto the ice to tie ropes to the floes; those who remained on board hauled on them to move painfully forward, while others tried to push the ice aside with picks, pincers and pickaxes. It took five days to break free from the ice. During the process a number of the crew suffered from frostbite, including all three surgeons. Eventually they landed on Weddell Island.
Dumont d’Urville spent eight more months exploring southern waters. He then headed for Hobart and then sailed on to New Zealand; after anchoring for a few days at the Auckland Islands, he sailed north off the east coast of New Zealand. November 6, 1840, the two ships entered the harbour at Toulon. They had been away three years and two months. A decade later an official account of the voyage was published showing two similar works.
Early Auckland Cottage, possibly Onehunga with St Peters Anglican Church behind Watercolour 22.5 x 37
Signed 10,000 - 15,000
Cox’s Creek, Westend Road, Westmere
Watercolour 45 x 63
Signed & dated 1887
24,000 - 28,000
Provenance: Ex Collection of Sir James & Lady Fletcher
56 ALFRED SHARPE
55 JOHN BARR CLARKE HOYTE
57 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Lake Wakatipu
Oil on shell 12.5 x 9
700 - 1,000
58 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Lake Te Anau
Oil on shell 12.5 x 9
Signed M J lower right
700 - 1,000
59 JOHN WEEKS
Composition with Crucifixion
Tempera on paper 53.5 x 42
4,000 - 6,000
60 JOSEPH GAUT
Maori Girl
Oil on canvas 55 x 40
Signed & dated 1888
12,000 - 18,000
Mud Pool with Face, 1965
Black and white photograph 20 x 15
800 - 1,200
62 THEO SCHOON
Three Gourds with Handles
Coloured pencil and ink on paper 30 x 21
Signed & dated 1962
800 - 1,200
63 THEO SCHOON
Gourds on a Stand with Branch
Coloured pencil and ink on paper 30 x 21
Signed & dated 1963
800 - 1,200
64 JOHN KINDER
Mt Eden and the Stockade
Pen and wash 22 x 34.5
Inscribed & dated 1858
3,000 - 5,000
61 THEO SCHOON
Spanish Village
Pastel in paper 36.5 x 52
Signed
500 - 1,000
66 FRANCIS MCCRACKEN
Puente Bridge, San Martin, Toledo
Pastel on paper 37 x 52
Signed, inscribed & dated 1933
500 - 1,000
Gossip, St Monance
Ink & pencil on paper 15 x 20
400 - 600
65 FRANCIS MCCRACKEN
67 FRANCIS MCCRACKEN
68 FRANCIS MCCRACKEN
Self Portrait Oil on board 75 x 51
Signed
2,000 - 4,000
69 FRANCIS MCCRACKEN
Connie Oil on canvas 91 x 70
Signed & inscribed on stretcher verso
2,000 - 4,000
70 GEORGE O’BRIEN
Attributed Two Miles Below the Junction of Port Chalmers and Waikouaiti Roads
Watercolour 13.5 x 17.5
Signed and inscribed on original backing board affixed verso 1,000 - 2,000
71 GEORGE O’BRIEN
Untitled - Coastal Scene
Watercolour 29 x 50
Signed & dated 1880
800 - 1,200
72 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Maori Fort with Figures
Watercolour 13.5 x 17.5
800 - 1,200
73 COMMANDER GEORGE HORNBROOK
Ships of the Line
Ink on paper 14 x 18
Inscribed
800 - 1,200
74 ROBERT HARVEY
The Sounds, New Zealand
Watercolour 17.5 x 26
Inscribed on label affixed verso
800 - 1,200
75 ROBERT HARVEY
Mount Cook, New Zealand
Watercolour 24 x 17.5
Inscribed on label affixed verso
800 - 1,200
76 ROBERT HARVEY
Manly Beach, Sydney
Watercolour 17 x 25.5
Inscribed on label affixed verso
800 - 1,200
77 ROBERT HARVEY
Otira Gorge, New Zealand
Watercolour 22.5 x 16.5
Inscribed on label affixed verso
800 - 1,200
78 GEORGE O’BRIEN
River Leith, Otago, circa 1870
Monochrome
watercolour 22 x 26
Signed
8,000 - 12,000
80 ROBERT HARVEY
Sophie Maori Guide
Watercolour 22.5 x 17
Inscribed on image and inscribed on label affixed verso
800 - 1,200
79 19TH CENTURY ARTIST UNKNOWN
View from Lawn, Mission House Island
Pencil on paper 21 x 30.5
Inscribed
800 - 1,200
81 19TH CENTURY ARTIST UNKNOWN
Wellesley Street looking towards Freemans Bay, circa 1860 together with another early Auckland sketch
Pencil on three sheets of paper 14 x 26
Inscribed. Unframed
800 - 1,200
82 19TH CENTURY ARTIST UNKNOWN
A selection of seven drawings on paper featuring various colonial subjects
Pencil on paper various sizes approximately 17 x 31. Unframed
One dated 1860
All inscribed
800 - 1,200
Inscriptions read:
(a) St George’s Bay, Parnell, Auckland Ship Evening Star
(b) St Stephens, Parnell with minor study of buildings verso
(c) Bush Section, Otago, NZ
(d) Okoaro New Plymouth NZ - studies verso
(e) Te Karaka Church 1860 Auckland G. Urquhart
(f) Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth NZ with further study verso
(g) Karaka Church - three building studies verso
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84
with Beret Oil on board 43.5 x 35
400 - 600
Portrait of Tony Fomison
Charcoal on paper 50 x 35.5
Signed & dated 1971
1,500 - 2,500
85
Portrait of Ada Ryan Oil on board 39 x 33.5
800 - 1,200
86
Portrait of a Man
Charcoal on paper 46.5 x 37
Signed & dated 11/9/62
800 - 1,200
83 FRANCES IRWIN HUNT
Lady
DORIS LUSK
ROBERT NETTLETON FIELD
CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
88 JOSIAH MARTIN
Auckland Free Library and Art Gallery
Opened March 26, 1887
Photograph 14.5 x 20
Inscribed
800 - 1,200
89 L P ANDREWS
Petrus van der Velden
Photograph 18.7 x 13.8
Signed
400 - 600
87 CHARLES HEAPHY
The Level Country At The South End, Looking North of Blind Bay
Lithograph 24 x 87.5
Signed
800 - 1,200
Includes inscriptions left to right the following place names: Driving Cattle with his Stock-whip; Astrolabe Road, Adele Island, Mouth of Motucka River; Cabbage Tree, Tree-Fern, ; Stephens Island; D’Urville Island, French Pass Mouth of Moutere River, Croisilles Harbour
90 CHRISTOPHER WOOD
Seated Nude, 1930
Pencil on paper 30 x 20.5
Signed verso
200 - 400
91 R J DOWNIE
Waitemata from Shelly
Beach, Auckland 1910
Watercolour 14.5 x 22.5
400 - 600
92 ELLEN VON MEYERN
Day Dreams
Oil on board 30 x 22
Signed & dated 1908
800 - 1,200
93 WILLIAM MENZIES GIBB
Canterbury River Scene
Watercolour 24 x 35.5
Signed
400 - 700
94 THOMAS DERBY RYAN
Awhinga
Watercolour 16 x 15
Inscribed
300 - 500
95 KENNETT WATKINS
Hauraki Gulf Scene
Watercolour 32 x 26
Signed & dated August 1878
200 - 400
96 AFTER GOTTFRIED LINDAUER
Anna Rupene and Child
Oil on canvas 75 x 60
3,000 - 5,000
97 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Still Life with Maori Objects
Watercolour 45.5 x 58.5
1,000 - 2,000
99
98 FRANCES DOLINA ELLIS
The Pearl Diver
Oil on canvas 40 x 33
400 - 600
99 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER
Untitled Motifs
Mixed media on paper 34 x 25
Signed
600 - 800
100 THEO SCHOON
Untitled - A Pair of studies
Pencil on paper 18 x 15
100 one of a pair
101 TREVOR LLOYD
Lizard Skin (Maori Chief )
Etching 27.5 x 19.5
Signed
500 - 800
102 THEO SCHOON
Boiling Mud, 1967
Colour photo 45.5 x 45.5
500 - 800
400 - 800 98
800 - 1,200
103 THEO SCHOON
Untitled (Koru Design)
Pencil on paper 46.8 x 75
104 FRANCES DOLINA ELLIS
Study of an Old Woman Knitting
Charcoal on paper 74 x 47
Signed
600 - 800
105 THEO SCHOON
Robley photo
Ink and printed photo 31 x 29
Signed
300 - 500
106 IVY COPELAND
Maori Boy
Watercolour 34.5 x 27
Signed
200 - 400
107 A L TREADWELL
Three Kings, Auckland Oil on pinex board 52 x 104.5
Signed 1,000 - 1,500
108 WILLIAM GREEN
Stewart Island
Oil on canvas 49.5 x 90
Signed & dated 1899
1,500 - 2,500
109 SAM STUART ATTRIBUTED
St Johns College, Auckland
Monochrome oil on board 26.5 x 46.3
800 - 1,200
110 J PARSONS
Waikato River Oil on board 54 x 68
Signed
400 - 600
111 S NATOCK
Melbourne Cup, Fly Teal Direct, 1959
Original poster 85 x 62
Inscribed 1,000 - 2,000
112 H PROST
Force, Energie par les produits
Lavocat, aliments irradiés
Stone lithographic poster 92 x 69
Printed Foet, Lyon circa 1930
Signed & inscribed
800 - 1,200
113 C M HOISTON
Portrait of Archibald Fisher Oil on canvas 59.5 x 39
Signed & inscribed verso
800 - 1,200
114 J DELBALAT
Baie Wangaroa (Whangaroa Harbour Northland)
Engraving on paper 63 x 47
Inscribed & dated 1868
800 - 1,200
115 VICTOR CHARLES LOTTIN
De la Noivell Zelande (Northland)
Lithograph 31 x 47
800 - 1,200
116 VICTOR CHARLES LOTTIN
Del la Baie Shouraki, March 1827 (Hauraki Gulf)
Lithograph 61.5 x 92.5
800 - 1,200
117 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Sketch of Maori Fortification, Rangiriri
Lithograph 58.4 x 44.5
500 - 1,000
118 AMBROISE TARDIEU
Plan de la Riviere Shooukianga
Lithograph 61.5 x 92.5
800 - 1,200
119 ELLA SPICER
Supreme Court, Auckland
Watercolour 25 x 31
Signed & dated 1925. Inscribed verso
600 - 900
120 CHARLES FREDERICK GOLDIE
A Good Joke
Chromolithograph print 38.5 x 31.5
Machine signed, inscribed & dated 1905
800 - 1,200
121 F W GREGORY
Grafton Bridge, Auckland
Watercolour 32 x 49
Signed & inscribed
800 - 1,200
122 KITTY AIRINI VANE
Sandy Bay, Matapouri
Gouache on paper 36 x 48
Signed & dated 1946
500 - 800
123 KITTY AIRINI VANE
Southern Alps
Gouache on paper 37 x 53.5
Signed & dated 1937
400 - 800
124
Wahine & Child
Etching edition of 50 22 x 14
Signed & inscribed
300 - 500
125 LOUIS-AUGUSTE DE SAINSON
Rangui Ngapuhi Chief - from Voyage de la Astrolabe 1826-1829 Plate 71
Lithograph 47 x 32
Dated 1833
1,000 - 1,500
126 LOUIS-AUGUSTE DE SAINSON
Natai Ngapuhi Chief - - from Voyage de la Astrolabe 1826-1829 Plate 63
Lithograph 47 x 32
Dated 1833
1,000 - 1,500
127 J ALPHONSE PELLION
Etudes de Tatouages, Nouvelle
Zelande, circa 1820
Engraving 23.9 x 32.2
Inscribed
800 - 1,200
128 LEJEUNE and ANTOINE CHAZAL
Cascade de Fanafaoua pres du Village de Kidikidi c1822-25 from L.I. Duper rey’s Voyaga autour du Monde
Hand coloured aquatint 24.5 x 33
Signed
400 - 600
129 THOMAS DERBY RYAN
Figurehead of Small War Canoe, Lake Rotorua
Watercolour 22 x 28.5
Inscribed
400 - 700
130 DR RENZO PADOVAN
Pa Taka Storage House
Etching 30 x 23
Signed & dated 1955
400 - 600
131 DR RENZO PADOVAN
Maori Carving
Etching 30 x 23
Signed & dated 1955
400 - 600
132 DR RENZO PADOVAN
Meeting House Interior looking out at Pataka
Lithograph 31 x 21
Signed & dated 1956
400 - 600
ROBERT F WAY
127 128
129
133 GEORGE FRENCH ANGUS
Te Werowero, or Potatau the principal chief of all Waikato.
Te Waru, principal chief of the Nga Ti Apakura tribe. Te Pakaru, principal chief of the Nga Ti Maniapoto tribe.
From New Zealanders Illustrated, plate 44, 1847
Coloured lithograph 98 x 61.5
Inscribed - The signatures of both Te Waru and Te Pakaru are included under their portraits
800 - 1,200
134 GEORGE FRENCH ANGUS
Horomona Maruhau, or Blind Solomon
Hand coloured lithograph
800 - 1,200
135 ALPHONSE CHARLES MASSON
Funérailles d’un Chef, Nouvelle Zélande
Engraving 16.4 x 25.8
Signed & inscribed
400 - 600
136 DAY & SON
New Plymouth Lithograph on paper 26 x 34
100 - 150
137 LOUIS LE BRETON
Cases de Naturels
139
139 JOSEPH GAUT
Portrait of a Maori (Man) Hawkes Bay, 1885 Oil on canvas 49.5 x 39.6 2,000 -3,000
Lithograph from Atlas Pittoresque 23 x 33
Inscribed
200 - 400
138 JOSEPH JENNER MERRETT
Rua Pahu and Tongariro , Mount Egmont from Near the Waimate Pah, Taranake, View of Taupo from Te Rapa (3)
3 L Haghe lithographs 12 x 19
Inscribed
500 - 1,000
140 MARCUS KING
Maori Art New Zealand
Framed travel poster for National Publicity Studios
Silkscreen print 98 x 61.5
Inscribed
800 - 1,200
141 CHARLES HEAPHY
View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman’s Gulf, New Zealand; including a part of the site of the intended Town of Nelson, 1841
Lithograph 42.5 x 54.5
Inscribed
700 - 1,000
142 CHARLES HEAPHY
Part of Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson, New Zealand, Comprehending about one third of the water frontage of the town of Wellington.
Lithograph 42.5 x 54.5
Inscribed
700 - 1,000
143 CHARLES HEAPHY
View of a Part of the Town of Wellington New Zealand Looking Towards the South East Comprising About one third of the Water Frontage., 1841
Lithograph 42.5 x 54.5
Inscribed
700 - 1,000
146
GIUSEPPE
ANTONIO CASTELLI
Untitled (Maori Utensils)
Aquatint 80 x 26
Signed
400 - 600
147 MAJOR GENERAL HORATIO GORDON ROBLEY
Sketch of Hone Heke’s Tiki & a further sketch verso
Ink on paper 23.5 x 20
Signed & inscribed Exact size as the Tiki given to Sir G Grey by Hone Heke 1847
300 - 500
144 A PAIR OF EARLY BOTANICAL STUDIES FROM COOKS VOYAGE
Botanical Studies - A Pair
Engravings 50 x 35
800 - 1,200
145 CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
Interior of Rangiatea Church
Lithograph 29.5 x 18
800 - 1,200
148 MAJOR GENERAL HORATIO GORDON ROBLEY
Sketches of Huia Box Carvings & a further sketch verso
Ink on paper 23 x 22
Signed & inscribed Exact size of curious carvings on a Huia box in Rev Volkner Collection, 1865, he was murdered at Opotoki
300 - 500
149 A COMPLETE BOXED SET OF THE JOHN LEECH 150TH ANNIVERSARY PRINTS
Six screen prints and Three lithographs, unframed Edition of 75, 50 x 70
All signed & inscribed
3,000 - 5,000
Michael Smither Motumahanga, Screenprint
Don Binney Kotuku Puketotara, Lithograph
Justin Boroughs Boatsheds Orakei, Screenprint
Dick Frizzell Memorandum, Lithograph
Michael Hight Kyeburn, Screenprint
John Walsh
We go right there Tonto, Lithograph
Peter Siddell Trellis, Screenprint
Grahame Sydney Fog at Ranfurley, Lithograph
Sofia Tekela-Smith
Savage Island Man, Screenprint
150 EARLY NZ PRINTS
Various sizes & subjects - unframed
Two from the Novara Expedition
Tarawera, thermal / coastal scenes
As illustrated
500 - 1,000
151 ARTIST UNKNOWN
The Latest Scandal !
A D Willis Lithograph printer, Wanganui, unframed 42 x 61
Inscribed
300 - 500
152 KENNETT WATKINS
Portrait of a Young Boy
Death of Major Von Tempsky at Te-Ngutu-o-te-Manu, New Zealand, 7th September, 1868
A D Willis Lithograph printer, Wanganui, unframed 42 x 61
300 - 500
153 WILLIAM MASON
Still Life of Fish and Wine Oil on canvas 66 x 86.5
Signed & dated 1954
2,000 - 4,000
154 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER
Still Life with Ginger Jar Oil on board 44 x 61
Signed
800 - 1,200
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Here Here Here 1943 - 1993
Sarjeant Gallery Touring Exhibition
Label affixed verso
157 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER
Memories of New Zealand
Watercolour 32 x 46
Signed & dated 1973
800 - 1,200
158 BEATRICE M WHITE
Portrait of a Young Boy
Pastel on paper 49 x 36
Signed & dated 1953
300 - 500
159 DENNIS KNIGHT TURNER
The Punga Oil on Board 60 x 45
Signed & dated 1960
800 - 1,200
155 HELEN STEWART
Church Interior Oil on board 81 x 65
Signed
800 - 1,200
156 ELLA SPICER
Market Day
Watercolour 26 x 33
Signed
600 - 800
160 HENRYK SZYDLOWSKI
Untitled Landscape
Oil on canvas 91 x 82.5
Signed & dated 1984
800 - 1,200
161 WILLIAM JAMES REED
Portrait of a Maori Woman Oil on board 30 x 24
Signed
800 - 1,200
162 IDA G EISE
Street in Madrid
Oil on board 41 x 33.5
Signed & dated 1963
500 - 1,000
163 EDWARD NOEL BARRAUD
Hobart
Watercolour 23 x 33
Signed & dated 1905
400 - 600
164 ERNEST D STOCKS
Port Nicholson from the Botanical Gardens, Wellington
Watercolour 24.5 x 34.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1906 200 - 400
165 JOHN WEEKS
Moonlit Landscape
Watercolour 46 x 58.5
Signed 1,500 - 2,500
House and Garden
Oil on board 39.5 x 49.5
Signed 1,000 - 1,500
167 ARTIST UNKNOWN
North Head, Auckland Harbour, c. 1920 Oil on board 54.8 x 25.2
Inscribed
600 - 1,000
166 HARRY LINLEY RICHARDSON
168 H HILL
Memorial of Rugby School
Lithograph 66.5 x 48
100 - 200
169
GUSTAF DILLBERG
Pink Terraces
Ink on paper 12 x 19
Signed & dated 1886. Signed, inscribed & dated on original artist’s label affixed verso
200 - 500
170 HARRY LINLEY RICHARDSON
The Mother Kissed the Baby
Watercolour 35 x 23.5
Signed. Inscription verso
500 - 800
171
BARRY LETT COLIN MCCAHON INVITATION
Barry Lett Galleries invitation to Colin McCahon exhibition with pen drawings of exhibition by an unknown hand, 1968
Ink on printed brochure 19.5 x 31.5
Inscribed Working Drawings for No. 3, 4 & 5
‘Visible Mysteries’ 1968
300 - 600
172 IVY M COPELAND
Rural Scene
Watercolour 23 x 33.5
Signed & dated 1930
400 - 600
173 RUSSELL CLARK
Sculptural Drawing
Watercolour 27.5 x 16
Ex R P Archer Collection, former widow of R Clark - from label verso
200 - 400
174 LOUISE HENDERSON
Untitled
Watercolour 41 x 61
Signed
500 - 1,000
171 front
171 verso
173
175 PETER SIDDELL
Window
Silkscreen print, edition of 150 70 x 44.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1982
700 - 1,100
176 GRETCHEN ALBRECHT
International Women’s Year 1975
Silkscreen print, edition of 100
88.5 x 61
Inscribed For Una
500 - 1,000
177 PETER SIDDELL
Trellis
Screenprint, edition of 75 70 x 50
Signed, inscribed & dated 2005
500 - 1,000
178 SINA WOOLLCOTT
Rise, Taupo
Watercolour 47.2 x 64.6
Signed & dated 1963
400 - 600
179 SINA WOOLLCOTT
Untitled
Watercolour 47.2 x 64.6
Signed & dated 1963
400 - 600
180 SINA WOOLLCOTT
Untitled ( 3 Native Women)
Watercolour 47.2 x 64.6
Signed
400 - 600
181
Te Whare
Watercolour 47.2 x 64.6
Signed
400 - 600
182
Wellington Boatsheds
Watercolour 30 x 38
Signed
300 - 500
183 IVY M COPELAND
Village Scene with Boy and Dog
Watercolour 22.5 x 31
Signed
400 - 700
184
Untitled Landscape
Watercolour 27 x 35
Signed
200 - 400
SINA WOOLLCOTT
FRANCES DOLINA ELLIS
GEOFFREY E FAIRBURN
185 CYRIL WHITEOAK
Melanesia House,
Mission Bay
Watercolour 30.5 x 47
Signed & dated 1961
500 - 1,000
186 ELISE MOURANT
Apricots in a Basket
Pastel on paper 47 x 62.5
Signed
600 - 900
187 WILLIAM ALLEN BOLLARD
Mt Elie de Beaumount
Oil on canvas 34 x 24
Signed
300 - 600
188 AUBREY DE LISE
Reflections in No 1 Queen
Street
Watercolour 34 x 24.5
Signed & dated 1989
100 - 300
189 JOHN STEWART CLARK
Portrait of a Young Girl
Watercolour 9 x 7
Inscribed verso
400 - 600
190 GEORGE CHANCE
Near Queenstown, Wakatipu
Gelatin silver print 20 x 25.5
Signed & inscribed with Geo Chance label affixed verso
200 - 400
191 E MERVYN TAYLOR
NZ Weta
Linocut 11 x 7.5
Signed
200 - 400
192 A J INGLIS
Late Afternoon, Puhoi
Oil on card 29.5 x 42
Signed
200 - 400
188
193 LOUISE HENDERSON
Head Study
Pencil on paper 20 x 15
Signed
150 - 300
194 A FINNELL
Partington’s Mill
Watercolour 43 x 31.5
Signed
400 - 600
195 VIDA STEINERT
Tree Study
Watercolour 44 x 39
Signed
300 - 600
196 THOMAS STEWART MONKHOUSE
Milligans Reef, 1865
Watercolour and gouache on paper 23 x 30
300 - 600
197 ANTHONY STONES
Smoko
Watercolour 29 x 24
Signed & dated 1967
200 - 500
198 E GAFF
Taroona
Acrylic on paper 24.5 x 35
Signed & dated 1947
100 - 200
199 M J GEARY
(British 20th Century)
The Beach c. 1950
Oil on canvas 29.5 x 34
Signed
800 - 1,200
200 A J INGLIS
From Golden Spur
Oil on board 61 x 51
Signed
200 - 400
Provenance:
Peter McLeavey Gallery 2000
Receipt affixed verso
201 TOSS WOOLLASTON
Mapua
Pencil on paper 20 x 12.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1942
300 - 600
202 MICHAEL SMITHER
Thomas
Silkscreen print, edition of 20
58.5 x 50.5
Signed, inscribed & dated 1968
500 - 800
203 ARTIST UNKNOWN
European City and River
Watercolour 27.5 x 37.5
Signed & dated 1926
200 - 400
204 BEN WOOLCOMBE
Ostend, Waiheke Island & Apricot Trees, San Felice, Italy (A pair)
Watercolour 34.5 x 54
Signed & dated 1985 & 1987
150 - 250
205 RUDI GOPAS
Decaying Foundation
Charcoal 31 x 39
Signed & dated 1961
300 - 500
206 ILENE ROSA STICHBURY
Princess Wharf
Oil on canvas 30 x 45
300 - 600
207 ARTIST UNKNOWN
Untitled
Acrylic & pastel on paper 29 x 48
150 - 250
208 ANA GEDSON
Kete (1), 2002
Fibre 10 x 9
100 - 200
209 ALVAR
Woman Playing Violin
Lithograph 48.5 x 39.5
Signed
100 - 200
210 JULIAN HOOPER
Foliage & Garden
Pastel on paper 47 x 62.5
Signed & dated 1987
100 - 300
211 ALISON PICKMERE
Still Life with Teapot and Flowers
Oil on board 38.5 x 58
Signed
200 - 400
212 MARY FOREMAN
Lilies
Acrylic on board 58.7 x 44.5
Signed
800 - 1,200
213 BRUCE TRELOAR
Girl in Lagoon
Gouache on fabriano paper 30 x 41
Signed & dated 1989
300 - 500
214 KEITH PATTERSON
Untitled
Oil on board 53 x 55
Signed & dated 1949
100 - 200
215 PETER O’HAGAN
Still Life
Watercolour 41.5 x 36.5
Signed
100 - 300
Thank you - End of Sale
Next auction 26th March
Important, Early & Rare
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Screenprint, Ed. of 50, 74 x 52cm
Ed. of 40, 62.5 x 41.8cm
ROBIN WHITE
Florence and Harbour Cone
Screenprint
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John Leech Collection 6:30pm Wednesday 27 February 2013
ALVAR 209
AIRINI VANE, K ......................... 122, 123
ALBRECHT, G 176
ALDWORTH OLIVER, C R...... 50, 51, 52
ANDREWS, L P 89
ANGUS, G F 133, 134
ANTOINE, C L ................................... 128
BARRAUD, C D 145
BARRAUD, E N ................................. 163
BOLLARD, W A 187
CASTELLI, G A 146
CHANCE, G....................................... 190
CLARK, J S 189
CLARK, R .......................................... 173
COLIN, M I B L 171
CONRAD, C 41
COOKS VOYAGE.............................. 144
COPELAND IVY M 43, 106, 172, 183
DAY & S ............................................. 136
DE LISE, A 188
DE SAINSON, L-A 125, 126
DELBALAT, J ..................................... 114
DILLBERG, G 169
DOWNES, T W .................................... 53
DOWNIE, R J 91
EISE, IDA G 162
ELLIS, F D ................................... 98, 104
ELLIS, R 14
ELLIS, F D ......................................... 182
ELLIS, R 20
EVANS, J 24
FAIRBURN, G E ................................ 184
FIELD ROBERT, N 85
FINNELL, A........................................ 194
FOREMAN, M 212
Index
FRANCE, P 37
FRIZZELL, D ............................... 8 13 18
GAFF, E 198
GAUT, J ........................................ 60 139
GEARY, M J 199
GEDSON, A 208
GIBB, J ................................................ 46
GOLDIE, C F 120
GOPAS, R ......................................... 205
GREENE, W 108
GREGORY, F W 121
HANLY,P .............................................. 36
HARRIS, J 7 9 14
HARVEY, R ........... 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 90,
HAYMAN, P 30, 35
HEAPHY, C 87, 141, 142, 143
HENDERSON, L...... 23, 32, 38, 174, 193
HILL, H 168
HODGKINS,F ...................................... 33
HOISTON, C M 113
HOOPER, J 210
HOPE,G............................................... 39
HORNBROOK, C G 73
HOTERE, R ........................................... 6
HOYTE, J B C 55
HUNT, F I 83
INGLIS,A J ................................. 192, 200
JESSON, R 4
KAAN, S ................................................ 5
KILLEEN, R 12, 26
KINDER, J 64
KING, M ............................................. 140
LANE, T 1
LE BRETON, L .................................. 137
LINDAUER, A G 96
Collection 6:30pm Wednesday 27 February 2013
LLOYD, T 101
LOTTIN, V C ............................. 115, 116
LUSK, D 84
MADDOX, A............................. 11, 16, 19
MARTIN, J 88
MASON, W 153
MASSON, A C ................................... 135
MATCHITT, P 3
MCCAHON, C ............................... 21, 22
MCCRACKEN, F 65, 66, 67, 68, 69
MCINTYRE, R 31
MCINTYRE, P ............................... 42, 45
MENZIES-GIBB, W 93
MERRETT, J J ................................... 138
MERTON, O 28, 29
MOFFITT, T 17
MONKHOUSE, T S ........................... 196
MOURANT, E 186
NATOCK S ........................................ 111
O’BRIEN G 71, 78
O’BRIEN A G 70
O’HAGAN, P ...................................... 215
PADOVAN, DR R 130, 131, 132
PARSONS, J ..................................... 110
PATTERSON, K 214
PELLION J, A 127
PERKINS, C .................................. 44, 86
PICKMERE, A 211
PROST, H .......................................... 112
REED, W J 161
RICHARDSON, H L 166, 170
ROBLEY, M G H G .................... 147, 148
RYAN, T D 94, 129
SCHOON, THEO ............ 61, 62, 63, 100, 102, 103, 105
JOHN LEECH PRINTS 149
SHARPE, A.................................... 54, 56
SIDDELL, P 175, 177
SIMMONDS, F....................................... 2
SMITHER, M 10, 25, 202
SPICER, E 119, 156
STEINERT, V ..................................... 195
STEWART, H 155
STICHBURY, I R ................................ 206
STOCKS, E D 164
STONES, A 197
STUART (ATTRIBUTED) S ............... 109
SZYDLOWSKI, H 40, 160
TARDIEU, A ....................................... 118
TAYLOR E M 191
TREADWELL A L 107
TRELOAR B ...................................... 213
TURNER, D K 99, 154, 157, 159
UNKNOWN ARTIST ... 57, 58, 72, 79, 81, 82, 97, 117, 150, 151, 167, 203, 207
VON MEYERN,E 92
WALTERS, G ....................................... 27
WATKINS, K 95, 152
WAY, R F ........................................... 124
WEEKS, J 34, 59, 165
WHITE, B M 158
WHITEOAK, C ................................... 185
WOOD, C 90
WOOLCOMBE, B .............................. 204
WOOLLASTON, T 201
WOOLLCOTT, S 178, 179, 180, 181
WYNYARD, C R H................... 47, 48, 49
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