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Sale No. 70
Catalogue of . 20th Century New Zealand Paintings, Prints and Drawings
WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY 1985 at 7.00 P.M. in our Gallery Saleroom
Preceeded at 6.00 p.m. by an uncatalogued offering of prints and works on paper.
Viewing Friday 10th May 9.00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Sunday 12th May 11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May 9.00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
N .B. Viewing by arrangement only · on day of sale C over illustration : Philip C lairmont. Untitled oil on jute ca n va s. Lo t 113 .
Webb Galleries Limited
Art Auctioneers & Appraisers T & G Building Corner Wellesley & Elliot St P O Box 7008 Telephone 734-404 Auckland
The Catalogue
1
Francis McCracken
Landscape c 1910
- 1600
2
E. Mervyn Taylor
Early Morning. Wakatete Bay near Thames
watercolour
signed and dated 1956 in ink
23 5 x 45 5 cm (illustrated)
2000 - 2500
3
E. Mervyn Taylor Beachcombers
watercolour
signed and dated 1956 in ink (illustrated)
3000 - 4000
4
Olivia Spencer Bower
London from Eric Newton's House watercolour
signed in brushpoint
43 x 35 cm (illustrated)
900 - 1200
5
Olivia Spencer Bower
Barn in Suffolk c. 1963
watercolour signed in brushpoint (illustrated)
900 - 1200
6
Olivia Spencer Bower Ponui Island
watercolour signed in brushpoint
33 x 46 cm
700 - 900
7
Alan Brooks Seagull, Coromandel
watercolour signed and dated 1934
23 x 18 cm
200 - 250
8
John Weeks Leaves oil on board signed . 29.5 x 22 cm
Ref: A Retrospective Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery. cat no. 163
1500 - 2000
9
John Weeks Demmat, Morocco
pastel signed in pencil
22 x 29 cm
1400 - 1600
10
John Weeks
Fez
pastel
24 x 31 cm
authenticated on reverse l000 - 1200
11
John Weeks
Still life with fruit monoprint and oil
25 x 31 cm
authenticated on reverse (illustrated)
700 - 900
12
John Weeks Marakesh sepia wash signed in brushpoint
27 x 37 cm
600 - 800
13
E. Lois White
Floral Still Life with Black Vase
watercolour on hardboard
36 x 28 cm
Collection: Jack Crippen. Auckland (illustrated)
900 - 1200
14
Artist Unknown
Portait of a Girl with Black Tie
possibly the work of Olivier Spencer
Bower who painted numerous portraits when a student at Elam School, Auckland, studying under Archie Fisher and Lois White oil on board
40 x 37 cm
300 - 500
15
James Turkington Drovers
Painted relief carving on pinex soft board
signed 103 x 184 cm (illustrated)
1200 - 1600
16
Ida Eise
Low Tide. Islington Bay. Waiheke
Oil on board
signed and dated 1932
29 x 37 cm
600 - 800
17
Peggy Spicer
Renall Street off Ponsonby Road
pen and watercolour
18
Peggy Spicer
Glimpse in Newton Gully
19
Rata Lovell Smith
Grazing Sheep Mount Hut
oil on canvas
signed
40 x 50 cm (illustrated)
1000 - 1500
20
Cedric Savage
Spanish Garden oil on board
signed
45 x 54 cm
700 - 1000
21
Cedric Savage
Barcelona Castle. Defels watercolour
signed in brushpoint
50 x 62 cm
400 - 600
22
John Tole
Rotorua Thermal Area
oil on board
signed
40 x 32 cm (illustrated)
1500 - 2000
23
John Tole
Floral Still Life with Daisies and Apple
oil on board
signed and dated 1940
35 x 28 cm
1000 - 1500
Cecil S. Jamieson
Fishing Boats
Nugent Welch South Island. Haystacks
Sam Cairncross
Bridge and Trees, Paris
Jack Crippen
North Island Landscape
Eric Lee-Johnson
Cliff and Beach near Auckland
Ron Stenberg
Vollendam . Holland
Collection : Jack Crippen (illustrated) 800 - 1200 28
Ron Stenberg
The Lighter Basin. Auckland 1960
31
Hilda Wiseman
A Corner of the Artist's Si!ting Room
watercolour
signed in pencil
12.5 x 15 . 5 cm (illustrated)
400 - 600
32
Hilda Wiseman
A Corner of the Artist's Garden. Mt Eden
watercolour signed in pencil
12 x 15.5 cm (illustrated)
400 - 600
33
John Weeks
The Arched Bridge. Italy
sepia wash drawing signed in ink
29 x 21 cm
600 - 900
34
A.J .C. (Archie) Fisher
Study for a triptych mural for the St Paul's College, Hamilton pencil and chalk
34 x 52 cm
Collection: Jack Crippen
200 - 300
35
Archie Fisher Head Study
pencil
14 x 13 cm
Collection: Jack Crippen
150 - 200
36
Adele Younghusband
Still Life with Bust and Vase of Flowers oil on board signed and dated 1958
54 x 40 cm
400 - 600
37
H. Linley Richardson
Saltwood Castle. Kent
watercolour signed in brushpoint
27 x 38 cm
600 - 800
38
Frances Hunt
Abstract Composition oil on board
30 x 36 cm
350 - 500
39
Frances Hunt
Picnic Spot. Taupo oil on board signed
34 X 45
350 - 500
40
Frances Hunt
Primulas oil on board
signed
50 x 40 cm
250 - 350
41
John Weeks
Old Bridge. Sospol. France pencil
9 x II cm
250 - 350
42
Artist Unknown
Floral Still Life watercolour signature illegible
68 x 49 cm
500 - 700
43
Jan Nigro
Still Life with Fruit and Bowl oil on board signed
36 x 29 cm
600 - 800 44
Jan Nigro
Portrait of a Woman with Gold Earrings oil on board
inscribed "Head. Jan Nigro" on reverse
29 x 24 cm
400 - 600 45
Jan Nigro
Head of a Woman pencil signed 19 x 14 cm
150 - 200
46
Jan Nigro Meg oil on board
43 x 24 cm
150 - 250 47
John Weeks
Between the Showers watercolour signed in brushpoint 8 . 5 x 15 cm
400 - 600 48
Russell Clark
illustration for "Lady of the Lake"
indian ink signed 15 x 22 cm
150 - 250
49
Russell Clark
Illustration for "High Jinks and History"
indian ink signed with initials
12 x 17 cm
80 - 150
50
Rix Carlton
Waikato Landscape
watercolour signed in brushpoint
18 x 36 cm
400 - 600
51
Rix Carlton
Waikato Landscape
Watercolour signed in brushpoint
15 x 25 cm
400 - 500
52
Ena B. Jeans
The Russian Embassy. Kensington
watercolour signed in ink and inscribed
58 x 39 cm
500 - 600
53
K. Airani Vane
The Little Red Hut. Mount Cook
gouache signed
36 x 49 cm
500 - 700
54
Adele Younghusband
Whata Whata Landscape
oil on board
signed and dated 1960
42 x 45 cm
200 - 300
55
Minnie F. White
Central Otago. Landscape
oil on board
signed
29 x 40 cm
250 - 300
56
Stuart B. Maclennan
The Gap
watercolour
32.5 x 39.5 cm
400 - 500
57
Ena B. Jeans
Gisborne River
watercolour signed in ink
26 x 28 cm
300 - 400
58
Ena B. Jeans
View of Gisborne
signed in ink
26 x 28 cm
300 - 400
59
Ena B. ,Jeans
Mrs Cook's House. Wanaka
signed in ink and inscribed
26 x 29 cm
300 - 400
60
Ena B. Jeans
Naseby
watercolour signed and dated '33 in ink
21 x 24 cm
300 - 400
61
Ena B. Jeans
Two watercolours of Akoroa
signed in ink
both 21 x 24 cm
400 - 600 JO
62
Ella Spicer
Landscape
watercolour
signed in brushpoint
25 x 35 cm
400 -500
63
Ella Spicer
Forest Walk
watercolour
signed in brushpoint
32 x 38 cm
250 - 350
64
Ella Sp icer
Coastal Scene
watercolour
signed
23 x 32 cm
150 - 250
65
Vida Steinert
Shop Front Hobson Street
Auckland
watercolour
signed in pencil
37 x 50 cm
400 - 500
66
Douglas MacDiarmid
Versailles
watercolour
signed in ink
30 x 23 cm
700 - 1,000
66A
Douglas MacDiarmid
Ceylon VII
pastel
inscribed, signed and dated '73
21 x 29 cm
350 - 450
67
Minnie F. White
Landscape with Houses
watercolour signed in brushpoint
23 x 31 cm
300 - 400
68
Minnie F. White
Floral Still Life
watercolour signed in pencil
38 x 28 cm
300 - 400
69
Alison Pickmere
Auckland Landscape
watercolour
signed and dated 1946 in pencil
39 x 50 cm
700 - 900
70
Alison Pickmere
Couples Dancing in a Landscape
oil on board
signed
39 x 54 cm
300 - 400
71
Doris Lusk
Canterbury Landscape 1968
watercolour
signed and dated in pencil
54 x 75 cm
900 -1, 200
72
Helen Mason
North Island Landscape oil on canvas signed 62 x 75 cm 400 - 500 73
May Proctor Bay with Boats
watercolour signed 20 x 35 cm 250 - 350 74
May Smith Coromandel Landscape
watercolour
signed and dated '67 in ink
30 x 40 cm
300 - 400
75
Lyn Gurney Landscape
oil on board
signed and dated '65
45 x 55 cm
200 - 300
76
Theo Schoon
Untitled Drawing
crayon and ink
signed and dated 1960
25 x 19.5 cm
400 - 600
77
Theo Schoon Untitled Drawin& pencil
signed and dated 1960
25 x 19 cm
400 - 500
78
Hildegard Wieck
Coastal Study
watercolour
signed
25 x 26 cm
75 - 100
79
Ted Bracey Waikato Landscape
gouache
signed on back board in artists hand
30 x 38 cm
100 - 150
80
Sina Woolcott Landscape Rotorua 1962
gouache
signed in pencil
53 x 74 cm
Exhibited: Auckland City Art Gallery
Contemporary New Zealand Painting
200 - 300
81
Denis Knight Turner Horned Beat No 38
pastel and ink
signed and dated 1957
25 x 47 cm
(illustrated)
450 - 600
82
Denis Knight Turner
Maori Head with Moko
pen and watercolour
signed
36 x 27 cm
(illustrated)
350 - 500
83
Denis Knight Turner
Abstract Motif
watercolour
signed and dated 1951 in ink
25 x 21 cm
300 - 400
I84
Denis Knight Turner Caladonian Hotel. Okarito
pen, watercolour and crayon
signed and dated '57 in ink
47 x 59 cm (illustrated)
500 - 700
88
June Black
The Subjects
painted ceramic sculpture 1956 signed and dated H. 34 cm 65 - 100
89
June Black
Untitled
painted ceramic figure 1956 H. 42 cm 65 - 100
90
Marte Szirmay
small table sculpture
85 acronite and silver wire
L . H Dia. 11 cm
omse enderson 150 - 250
Rooftops from the Artist's Studio, Lot 85
Paris
oil on canvas signed and dated 1955
51 x ·40 cm (illustrated)
2,000 - 3,000
86
Denis Knight Turner Horned Beasts No 84 ink and watercolour signed and dated 1957
46 x 41 cm
300 - 400
87
Denis Knight Turner Horned Beasts No 85
watercolour signed and dated 1957
46 x 31 cm
300 - 4G0
91
Marte Szirmay
small table sculpture
acronite
Dia 9 cm
120 - 180
92
Marte Szirmay
circular sculpture
Dia. 24 cm
200 - 300
93
Colin McCahon
After Such a Matter of Life and Death
P.V.A. on paper
signed with initials and dated 1967 (illustrated)
1, 500 - 2,500
94
Colin McCahon
Kauri
charcoal drawing
s igned with initials and dated Dec. 53
76 x 55.5 cm (illustrated)
1,200 - 2,000
95
Colin McCahon
Untitled. Plant Form
P . V.A. on paper
signed with initials and dated '57
76 x 56 cm
1,200 - 1,600
96
Colin McCahon Helensville. July 1968
P.V.A. on board
number 7 of a series of 8 titled, signed and dated 60 x 44.5 cm
3,000 - 6,000
97
Colin McCahon
Small Landscape with Hillside
signed and dated Jan / Oct 1960
inscribed signed and dated on reverse 30 x 30 cm
1,200 - 1,600
98
Patrick Hanly
New Order 3 part 2. 1963
oil on canvas
inscribed signed and dated (twice inscribed on reverse "New Order 37" but inscribed on front "New Order 47") 73 x 61 cm
3,000 - 4,000
99
Patrick Hanly Torso G. enamel
100
Patrick Hanly
Golden Age Q
101
Rudi Gopas
Dunedin City and Harbour c. 1950
watercolour and black ink
45 x 57.5 cm
Collection : Sylvia Ronayne (the artist's daughter)
Auckland
Exhibited: Rudi Gopas Retrospective Exhibition Govett Brewster Art Gallery. New Plymouth cat no. 4. illustrated (illustrated)
2,500 - 4,000
102
Rudi Gopas
Landscape Diptych
mixed media on paper signed and dated I 961
43 x 65 cm
2,500 - 4,000
Lot 100
103
Milan Mrkusich
Untitled oil on canvas
signed and dated 1962
86.5 x 74 cm (illustrated)
3,000 - 5,000
104
Milan Mrkusich
Passive Element I oil on canvas
signed and dated 1969 on reverse
71 x 71 cm
2,000 - 3,000
105
Milan Mrkusich
Blue Area 1974
acrylic on board signed and dated '74
42 x 34 cm
1,800 - 2,500
106
Max Gimblett
Untitled Drawing
clear P.V.A. and pencil on handmade paper signed and dated 1981
65 x 49 cm
800 - 1,200
107
Robert Ellis
Near the City Centre
oil on hardboard
signed and dated 1965
90 x 121 cm
2,000 - 3,000
108
Tony Fomison Momenti Mori
inscribed signed and dated 1979
oil on hessian on board
34 x 34 cm hexagonal (illustrated)
1,200 - 1,800
109
Tony Fomison
Old Pa Site 1982
oil on board
inscribed signed and dated on reverse
21 5 x 28.5 cm
(illustrated)
1,000 - 1,200
110
Tony Fomison
Night and Day
oil, monoprint on paper, triptych
signed and dated 1962
155 x 90 cm
Collection: The late Ron O'Reilly
700 - 900
111
Philip Trusttum
Hidden (Garden Series)
oil on hardboard
signed with initials and dated 1974
136 x 117 cm (illustrated)
3,000 - 5,000
112
Allen Maddox Untitled Painting
oil on canvas
signed with initials and dated March 1980
188 x 199 cm (illustrated)
1,600 - 2,000
Lot 109
Lot 111
Lot 112
113
Phillip Clairmont
Diptych Untitled
oil on jute canvas 1977
signed
128 x 175 cm
(illustrated on cover)
5,000 - 7,000
114
Philip Clairmont
Diptych Mao
oil on jute canvas signed and dated Nov. 1977
94 x 185 cm
Collection: Rosemary McLeod. Wellington
5,000 - 7,000
115
David Armitage
Bed with Striped Blue Quilt
acrylic on canvas
169 x 142 cm
800 - 1,200
117
David Barker
W aiheke Shore
acrylic on paper signed and dated 1977
31 x 42 cm
800 - 1,000
116
Philip Clairmont
Interior. Dressing Table
mixed media on paper
signed with initials and dated 1979
30 x 39.5 cm
800 - 1,200
118
Philip Clairmont
Study for "The Cathedral under Attack by Demons"
mixed media on paper inscribed and signed
37 x 23.5 cm
700 - 1,000
119
Gabrielle Hope
View from Forest Hill. Takapuna gouache
55 x 84 cm
(illustrated) 1,000 - 1,500
120
Gretchen Albrecht
Garden Painting watercolour signed and dated 1875
75 x 53 cm
900 - 1,200
121
Ralph Hotere
Untitled Painting
inscribed Port Chalmers
mixed media on paper
signed and dated 1980
73 x 56 cm
800 - 1,000
122
Rudi Gopas
Sugspitze. Austrian Alps
watercolour and red chalk
signed and dated 1951
42.5 x 55.5 cm
Collection: Sylvia Ronayne
1000 - 1200
123
Rudi Gopas
Brick Kiln. Central Otago watercolour
40 x 52.5 cm
Collection: Sylvia Ronayne
40 x 52.5 cm
500 - 700
124
Rudi Gopas
Portrait of Dr Simenaur.
charcoal drawing signed and dated 1950
Collection: Sylvia Ronayne
400 - 500
125
Philip Trusttum
Untitled Painting
oil on canvas
signed with initials and dated 1973
40 X 29.5 CITl
500 - 700
126
Gavin Chilcott
Bermuda Triangle, Regatta
crayon drawing
titled signed and dated 1978
44.5 x 58.5 cm
300 - 400
127
Allen Maddox
Untitled ink drawing within a painted mount
signed with initials and dated 1975
overall 57.5 x 45.5 cm
250 - 350
128
Stephen Bambury
Site Works Set 5 No 5. Diptych
P. V .A. on canvas
signed and dated 1980
73 x 38 cm
500 - 700
129
James Ross
Head
encaustic wax
signed and dated 1980
42 x 37 cm
300 - 400
130
Michael Smither
Untitled Painting
acrylic on paper signed with initials and dated 1974
91 x 58 cm
500 - 800
131
Alan Pearson Self Portrait 1975
oil on hardboard
50 x 31 cm
300 - 350 ' 132
John Bailey
5 coloured corners
pencil ink and gouache on paper
signed and dated 1981
350 - 400
133
John Bailey Blue Corner
white chalk on blue paper signed and dated 1981
56.5 x 76 cm
350 - 450
134
Ian McMillan Waiheke Inlet
watercolour signed
27 x 35 cm
250 - 350
135
Wong Sing Tai
Head No 14
watercolour signed
57 x 44 cm
250 - 350
136
Michael Smither Mt Egmont c. 1974 gouache
32.5 x 36 5 cm
200 - 300 137
Patrick Hanly Embrace
felt pen drawing titled and dated 1971
17 x 22 cm
150 - 250
138
John Lethbridge Four Anchors
watercolour signed and dated 1974
78 x 58 cm
500 - 700
139
John Lethbridge Shadow Observation
watercolour signed and dated 1974
78 x 58 cm
400 - 600
140
Anthony Stones
Overcoat
watercolour
inscribed "work relating to the Freyberg Monument"
signed and dated 1977
75 x 46 cm
150 - 250
141
Suzanne Goldberg Landscape
acrylic on board
signed and dated
45 x 60 cm
300 - 400
142
Suzanne Goldberg
Yell ow Landscape
signed and dated 1974
54 x 75 cm
400 - 500
143
Margaret Wooley
Autumn Gold
oil on board
signed and dated 1977
58 x 58 cm
300 - 400
144
Brian Halliday
Kawarau River
oil on board
signed and dated 1969
42 x 55 cm
145
Simon McIntyre
King Country
signed and dated 1980 .
acrylic on paper
52 x 45 cm
350 - 500
