Soup cans sell well at art auction
The latest Art + Object Fine Art Auction did relatively well in these recessionary times with total sales of around $1.375 million.
The latest Art + Object Fine Art Auction did relatively well in these recessionary times with total sales of around $1.375 million.
This was partly due to the sale of a couple of Colin McMahon's including “He Calls for Elias” which went for $571 900 which was just up on the expected reserve of $500,000.
The other McCahon “Kauri and White Pine” went for $148 690 ($130,000)
There were two major international works in the sale - a couple of Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can screen prints – a vegetable one and onion one. The works which had been with a New Zealand collector for over twenty years each went for $24,160 about 50% more than their estimated price of $15,000.
A few other works went for around 50% above their expected sale price including a large Peter Robinson work on paper featuring a white spiral on black. “In this lost and forsaken land he cherished one comforting sign” sold for $59,475 ($40,000)
An untitled Julian Dashper drumhead work with a black star on the drum skin went for $19,440 ($14,000) and one of Peter Stichbury portrait works, “Walter Whitlow” went for $60 620 ($40,000).
Michael Parekowhai who will shortly be exhibiting as the official New Zealand artist at the Venice Biennale had one work in the sale featuring a stuffed sparrow sitting on an orange rod. Bill Jarvis sold for $9435 ($6000)
Other works included Don Driver’s “Horizontal Relief” of 1973 which went for $17 155 ($16,000, Ralph Hotere’s, "Mungo II, Aramoana" of 1982 for $20 585 ($18,000) and Shane Cotton’s “4 x 5 (ID)” consisting of embryonic shapes containing cultural emblems went for $43 460 ($38,000)
John Daly-Peoples
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
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Soup cans sell well at art auction
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