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 We have had a busy 2020 here at Antique & Art.
With the remaining weeks already filling up, if you have to contact us please do so this week so we can fit you in! Our last day of work is Tuesday December 15th and we will re-open on Monday February 15 2021. Thanks. Two works by the colourful New Zealand artist Jacqueline Fahey sold very well at auction last month.
Dunbar Sloane's 'New Zealand and International Fine Art Sale' on June 3rd featured a Self Portrait painting by Fahey, entitled Self Portrait in Augusta’s Bedroom. A large work, measuring 1210 x 600 mm that had been included in the Fahey touring retrospective exhibition from last year, it was estimated at $4,000-7,000 and sold for almost three times the top estimate at $20,000. Later in the month, Webbs ‘Art to Date’ Sale on 29 June featured lot 239, an untitled work, measuring 860 x 585 mm. Estimated at $5,000 - $7,000 it more than doubled its highest estimate at $15,275. This shows both an increased market interest in female artists and how a retrospective show can positively effect values of paintings by the featured artists. e.c.  A major survey of contemporary Māori art from the 1950s to the present day is being developed by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki to open this summer.
Toi Tū Toi Ora: will feature over 300 artworks by 120 Māori artists and will celebrate a vast range of contemporary Māori art, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, clay-making, jewellery and body adornment, photography, digital media, film and installation art. Artist's include: Mata Aho Collective collaborating with Maureen Lander; Shane Cotton; Emily Karaka; Reuben Paterson; Matekino Lawless and Christina Wirihana; Lisa Reihana; Reweti Arapere; Ngatai Taepa; Sandy Adsett; Areta Wilkinson; and more to be announced. Auckland Art Gallery Curator, Māori Art, Nigel Borell says, ‘It is nearly 20 years since a New Zealand art institution has revisited the story of contemporary Māori art in a large survey exhibition. This moment feels timely and essential. It will stimulate critical discussion about the place of contemporary Māori art while also presenting an occasion to celebrate its vitality and uniqueness. A project of this scale and importance is a major undertaking, but it is an exhibition that I’ve been thinking about for some years and am extremely excited to now be realising.’ It opens at Auckland Art Gallery on Saturday 5 December 2020 and will be free to the public. (edited from the AAG Press Release E.C.)  We hope you are all doing okay in your bubbles!
Antique & Art have been working 'online only' since the lockdown began six weeks ago. With the possibility of heading into Level 2 soon, we are tentatively making appointments for onsite appraisals towards the end of May. Please get in touch if you have any valuation questions.  We hope that you are all doing well, two weeks into our lockdown. We would to take a moment to wish you all the best for the Easter break. Take care in your bubbles!
 In line with the current governmental guidelines regarding social distancing, Antique & Art will no longer be undertaking first-hand appraisals. Over the last few years, the majority of our work has moved to online appraisals, especially when the object has been damaged or stolen. In many cases this is a very efficient and cost effective way of valuing. If you have anything you would like valued, you are more than welcome to send images and information to us here. Feel free to contact us with any questions that you have.
We hope you are staying safe and see you again in the real world when that curve trends downwards. Happy New Year. I hope you all had a refreshing summer break.
We are a back little bit early this year, our inbox was brimming so it was time to get back to work! I am looking forward to heading down to Wellington next week for the Simon Manchester Collection at Dunbar Sloane. I will update you with any interesting market information I garner from that. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @antiqueartnz to keep up-to-date of all the things I see in my travels. If you have anything you would like valued this year, we would love to hear from you, all questions are welcome. (Image: my flower arrangement inspired by Marti Friedlander's photo of Philip Clairmont.) Erika  Merry Christmas once again to everyone from Antique & Art Valuation Service.
Our tenth year will soon draw to a close and we look forward to a relaxing summer holiday to round out 2019. This year we will be closing our doors on Friday December 13th 2019 and re-opening on Monday January 28th 2020. Thank you to all our customers, followers and "inquirers" this year, we really appreciate you! See you in 2020. e.c.     It's December, so the auction houses are now on the home stretch to the end of trading for 2019.
Cordy's have their final catalogued antique sale on Tuesday December 10th. A highlight for me is lot 358 : A rare and large 19th C New Zealand historical silver Maori themed brooch by Adolph Kohn. Estimated at $1,500 - $3,000. Webb's new sale category 'Made in New Zealand', takes place the next day. This includes lot 44, a rare pair of colonial Kauri Scotch chests estimated at $2,500 - $3,500. Webb's also have an Asian Art auction on Thursday Dec 12th 6pm and Cordy's have a Christmas Sale on Monday Dec 16th at 4pm. I hope all auction staff have a relaxing and refreshing Christmas break and I look forward to seeing what comes to market in 2020. e.c.  Installation view / photo Erika Chamberlain A new record price for a Gordon Walters artwork (at auction) was set at Art + Object on Tuesday evening. The 1977 black and white Koru painting, seen in the installation photograph above, was estimated at between $500,000 - $800,000. After a bidding competition by a dealer and an art consultant in the room, the hammer came down at $516,000. Buyer's premium + charges makes the invoice total $619 820.
Ben Plumbly from A+O explains: "The most a Gordon Walters painting had previously sold for was $430,000 and that was four or five years ago," Art & Object auctioneer and director Ben Plumbly said. A retrospective exhibition of Walters' works titled New Vision was recently displayed in galleries around the country and finished at Te Papa. "I think his work is increasingly admired and for us in art market the way he painted means his works are extremely rare. He could take seven years to finish a painting. So it's a pretty major piece." from the Stuff article here. This work was purchased from Webb's in 1989, I was unable to trace the hammer price for this auction. |
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