Independent Antique & Art Valuers *AUCKLAND *WAIKATO *BAY OF PLENTY *COROMANDEL*NZ WIDE               Established 2009
Antique & Art Valuation Service
  • Home
  • Info
  • Services
  • About
  • Contact
  • News
  • Instagram

Lindauer Painting Amongst Great NZ Pieces For Auction at Christie's London 

9/12/2016

 
Picture
Lot 11 Lindauer Hinemoa
Christie's London have a Topographical Art Sale on December 15th which features works from the Americas Africa, Asia and Australiasia. Among the lots representing Aotearoa are works by Richard Aldworth Oliver - a collection of sketches and a few artefacts from when he was appointed to command Her Majesty's Sloop the Fly, visiting our waters between 1847-51.  His sketches are said to be amongst the first pictorial surveys depicting Maori life after colonial settlement.  The sketches (Lot 5) include a watercolour of the stage erected for the Maori feast for Sir Govenor Grey at Kerikeri.  There is also a taiaha and what is catalogued as a shard, which looks to be a greenstone adze (lot 4). The 20 watercolours are estimated at £15,000. In 1984 a group of similar works sold in Auckland for $139,200. Read the sale write up and history of these works from the time by Leonard Bell in Art New Zealand  here. Lot 4 artefacts sold for £6,250. Lot 5, the sketches sold for £17,500.

Goldie is represented in the sale with an oil of entitled 'Memories No. 5 Wiripine Ninia' estimated at £40,000. Sells for £131,000.

​A work by Vera Cummings of an unnamed maori chief is lot number 10. Sells for £2,375.

Most magnificent is this large scale (1220 x 1470 mm) Lindauer work from 1899 which is untitled but thought to be a depiction of Hinemoa of Te Arawa. It is similar to a smaller version in the Auckland Art Gallery which is from the Partridge Collection (now on show in the Lindauer exhibition).  It has come from a vendor in Midwestern America. Estimates are £120,000 - 180,000.  Hinemoa sells for £125,000.


Comments are closed.

    Antique & Art

    Stories from New Zealand and over the seas

    Archives

    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014

    Categories

    All
    International Sales
    Mystery
    NZ Auctions
    Sleepers
    What's On
    Word On The Street

    RSS Feed