An Auckland Collection Wed, 16 May 2018

The sale attracted a lot of interest and resulted in a significant new art auction record for Contemporary artist Heather Straka, $34,000, the second significant New Zealand art auction record for a Contemporary work is as many months. Last month saw the $82,500 bid for a Karl Maughan. The Auckland collector who consigned 82 works left happy with many of his works finding new homes and some top prices paid and the remaining 66 lots saw some great results. A small Jeffrey Harris Self Portrait, estimated at $4,000 - 6,000 saw numerous bids in the room and telephone bidders, pushing the price to $16,000. An Alexander Calder screen print 'ABC' was knocked down for $3,600 while a Toss Woollaston portrait in watercolour made $3,000 and an oil $17,000. We are seeing good demand for Woollaston, with a work making the third highest price in history at the Sally Hunt Collection in November 2017 ($110,000) and 'Mapua' last month fetching $142,000, the second highest price in history. It was encouraging to see such demand after the big $4million dollar auction held in April.

Highlights included

Lot 1 Parkes $5,750
Lot 7 Smither $6,250
Lot 9 Scott $6,200
Lot 11 McLeod $3,300
Lot 16 Hight $15,000
Lot 20 Maddox $9,000
Lot 24 Ellis $15,000
Lot 30 Castle $4,200
Lot 42 Bromley $5,200
Lot 47 Glen Wolfgramm $4,700 (New auction record)
Lot 55 Clairmont $6,000
Lot 56 Tapper $4,500
Lot 57 Harris $16,000
Lot 59 Madden $5,500 (New auction record)
Lot 64 Thomas $1,700 (New auction record)

Lot 86 Brown $5,750
Lot 87 Smither $10,000
Lot 88 Albrecht $32,000
Lot 90 Woollaston $17,000
Lot 92 Straka $34,000 (New auction record)
Lot 94 Frizzell $7,100
Lot 113 Calder $3,500
Lot 114 Ray $1,600
Lot 115 Killeen $5,250
Lot 116 Moffitt $10,000
Lot 119 Proudfoot $3,100 (New auction record)
Lot 131 Bromley $9,000
Lot 135 Hotere $2,300
Lot 136 Graham $2,000
Lot 137 Graham $1,600

Maggie Skelton - maggie@artcntr.co.nz
Telephone +64 9 379 4010