Rare NZ art for auction
Including three paintings owned by the late Eric and Kathy Hertz.
A sale of rare, important and early art, including work by some of New Zealand’s most significant artists, is expected to bring close to $2 million at auction in Auckland next week.
A 1978 acrylic by Sir Peter Siddell and a 1910 oil of a Maori chieftainess by Charles Frederick Goldie are expected to bring nearly $500,000 between them.
The sale at the International Art Centre in Parnell next Wednesday also features three paintings by Alvin Pankhurst which were owned by the late Eric and Kathy Hertz. They are expected to bring more than $100,000.
Mr Hertz was chief executive of 2degrees Mobile, New Zealand’s third largest mobile phone company.
The couple died in March when their twin-engined Beechcraft Baron aircraft crashed into the sea near Kawhia Harbour.
Other household-name artists in the sale include Ralph Hotere, Sir Toss Woollaston, Gordon Walters, Douglas Badcock, Frances Hodgkins, Peter McIntyre, Raymond Ching and Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, whose 1849 water colour of Auckland’s Princes St is expected to bring up to $35,000.
International Art Centre director Richard Thomson told NBR ONLINE Sir Peter Siddell’s acryclic is considered by many art experts to be one of his finest works.
Mr Thomson says the last Siddell work of this calibre to come up for sale was owned by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and fetched $218,000 last year.
A Portrait of Tony and Patsy will be sold with a copy of the book The Art of Peter Siddell, signed by the artist, who died in 2011.
Mr Thomson says the 1910 Goldie oil of Arawa chieftainess Rakapa is a very fine work which has been in the same private ownership for nearly 70 years.
“Even if this sells for the top end estimate of $250,000 it will be a very good buy.
“There is no downside to Goldie. This is of those lovely early ones from 1910 which has not been seen and is fresh to the market.”
Jock Anderson
Thu, 25 Jul 2013
Thu, 25 Jul 2013
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Rare NZ art for auction
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