86. Austen A Deans b. 1915
Norwest over Lake Wakatipu
Watercolour
34.5 x 53.5 cm
Signed & dated 2003
est. $4,000 - 6,000
Fetched $4,500
Relative Size: Norwest over Lake Wakatipu
Relative size

Lots 83 - 96

Here we feature a special section of paintings by some of New Zealand's most widely recognised and respected landscape painters. Artists, who through their work, have contributed to New Zealand's Art History. In a bid to "encourage artists to paint the essential character of the New Zealand Scene and the ways of life of its people" entrepreneur, Sir Henry Kelliher founded the Kelliher Art Award in 1956. Whilst works painted for the Award, and collected by Kelliher, were often overlooked by modernist artists and critics of their era, they were and still are always extremely popular with the New Zealand public. The 1976 Kelliher Art Awards and exhibition attracted over 10,000 patrons to the Hastings City Cultural Centre, an extraordinary response from a provincial town with a population then of just 35,000. Over the past few years International Art Centre has seen growing market response to works by these regional painters, a trend we fully expect to continue.

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