Our First Goldie!

ART+OBJECT has consigned its first C. F Goldie. Entitled Ahinata te Rangitautini, the painting is a beauty and has wonderful provenance, belonging to the family of Sir George Fowlds, former Minister of Education and Public Health, who originally purchased the painting directly from Goldie soon after it was painted in 1909. Ahinata te Rangitautini will be offered in the November 27th Important Paintings and Sculpture auction with an estimate of $150 000 - $200 000, a catalogue which is shaping up as our best yet. Further suitable entries are now invited until late October.

A+O to auction at Fire & Ice Gala Dinner fundraiser

Bring your generosity along to the year's most glamorous circus – Cirque Fire, the 2008 Fire & Ice Gala Dinner - is coming to town on September 4th to raise funds for The Breast Cancer Research Trust.

With the support of Art & Object as auctioneers for the evening, guests will also have the opportunity to take home auction items and prizes that money just cannot buy; front row tickets at Karen Walker's New York Fashion Week show; a guitar autographed by Paul McCartney; and exclusive holiday packages in exotic locations around the world.

Tickets to Cirque Fire are available at $250 per ticket or $2,500 per table of ten. To purchase tickets please visit www.curebreastcancer.org.nz or phone 0800 227 828

See You Tomorrow!

Kick-off 12:00pm sharp. And don't forget, the auction is on-site at 33 Randolph Street...

On The Road

Art+Object are delighted to confirm that we will be touring our November 27th Important Paintings and Scultpure auction to the capital. Selected highlights from the catalogue will go on view at Chaffer's Gallery in the sylish new Chaffers Dock complex. We will preview the exhibition on the evening of Thursday 13th of November and will be on view to the public the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Viewing for the John Leech and Gow Langsford galleries Warehouse auction opens tomorrow - Saturday 16th

See you on Saturday or Sunday 11am - 4pm, 33 Randolph Street. There may even be coffee (no promises though...).

We Really Have Been Busy - Honest...

It's been quite sometime since our last auction although we've been super busy behind the scenes, honest, really we have... In the last two months we've completed valuations of the public gallery collections of Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, The Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, Hawke's Bay Museum and Gallery and The Rotorua Museum of Art and History. The Christchurch Art Gallery Collection valuation comprised of over 6000 works and alone took five weeks to complete...

Fortune Favours the Brave?

Next Saturday night A+O will be auctioning one very special lot at the ARTSPACE 21st birthday celebrations. So special, in fact, that not even we know what it is... That's right, up for sale is one art work, commissioned by what Brian Butler refers to as a very 'important New Zealand artist' which will only be revealed once the hammer has fallen.