Contemporary, Foreign & Collectable Art 7 August Thu, 24 Jul 2008

Contemporary, Foreign & Collectable Art Auction together with a collection works from The Rutland Group, Elam School - 6:00 pm Thursday 7 August

Viewing Times

• Friday 1 August
  12 noon - 5:00 pm
• Sunday 3 August
  11:00 am - 3:00 pm
• Monday 4 August
  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Tuesday 5 August
  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Wednesday 6 August
  9:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Thursday 7 August
  9:00 am - 12:00 noon (Day of sale)

247 Lots - our largest ever offering ! Many unreserved and under $10,000.

Highlights include:

• A collection of rare watercolours from the estates of artists A E Baxter, (1878 - 1936), painted in Europe and NZ, Ida Carey, & B Blakemore-Fowler.
• A private collection of over 40 works from the Elam School and Rutland Group. Ida Eise, E W Payton, Minnie White, Charles Tole, Zoe Ireland, Vida Steinert, Archibald Fisher, Herbert Tornquist, Dennis Knight Turner, Arthur Thompson, to name a few.
• Contemporary NZ works under $12,000 including Mark Braunias, Nigel Brown, Gavin Chilcott, Ted Dutch, Jenny Dolezel, Robert Ellis, Fatu Feu'u, Jeffrey Harris, Richard Killeen, Ian Scott, Peter Peryer photographs, Allen Maddox including a large canvas, Karl Maughan, Alexis Neal, Alan Taylor, Ian Scott, Michael Smither, Grahame Sydney, A collection of John Papas without reserve & others.
• Two oil on velvet by Charles McPhee
• Historic New Zealand Paintings - many without reserve - 2 J B C Hoyte, C Blomfield, C Carrington, H W Kirkwood, J D Perrett, L W Wilson, G E Pruden, J De Vere, D H Hutton, Duncan Darroch, J Hodgson, Henry Freer Rawson, Edmond Goldsmith, Frank Wright, four early watercolours by Alice F Whyte, and many more
• Regional artists, Douglas Badcock, Peter Beadle, Michael Blow, Ion Brown, Hans Brutch, Allan Crombie, Colin Lovell Smith, Aston Greathead, Roger Harrison, Arthur C Hipwell, Jos Kivits, Judith Moreton, Lance O'Gorman, Peggy Spicer, Brian Strong, J K Reed, Peter J Wallers, Gordon Tovey, Jonathan White and others.
• Three sketches by John Weeks,
• Foreign art: 30 lots, Aldridge, G Demain Hammond, Sydney Lawrence, David Hockney, Rowden, G Serritelli, Robert Hagen & others.
• Many other interesting works

International Art Centre is currently accepting entries for Important, Early & Rare, to be held Tuesday 14 October, the last of this sale category for 2008. Another exceptional offering is anticpated - already included in the sale are major works by Charles Frederick Goldie ( a major work on the market for the first time since 1939), Charles Blomfield, Peter Siddell, Alfred Sharpe, Horrace Moore-Jones Gallipoli, a rare study by Toss Woollaston, & the Foster Clark Collection of Garth Tapper & other artists including Ray Crook, Pauline Yearbury, Jan Nigro & Emily Jackson. Entries close 12 September. Contact Richard Thomson richard@artcntr.co.nz Phone +64 9 379-4010 or complete our online appraisal form