International Art Centre has smashed records again, this time with a version of 'Simpson and His Donkey' by Horace Moore-Jones. The unknown buyer bid $257,950 including buyers premium against much competition in the room and on the phone. This iconic image is one of around 7 known versions Moore-Jones painted. A much larger version is on exhibition at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The last one to sell at auction was around Anzac Day in 2007 fetching $120,000 AUD. Webb's then sold one in 2008 (with the similar dark background) which fetched $120,000 NZD. It looks like WWI items are really what the market wants during the centennial year of the start of the Great War.
Picture from the NZ Herald story link here.
Picture from the NZ Herald story link here.
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