Important Paintings Auction - This Thursday 6:30pm

Some installation shots from the Auckland gallery of the upcoming sale - looking pretty swish...

The Odyssey Group - Big in Australia...

With the July 30th Important Paintings catalogue opening to the public in Auckland on Friday night it was nice to see an Australian journalist picking up on the collection. Go to the Australasian Art Auction record site to check it out: ( http://www.aasd.com.au/index.cfm/news/7-journeys-end-for-art-investment-club/)

Connells Bay Photography Billboard

John and Jo Gow's unique property on Waiheke Island unites art and nature by planting sweeps of native trees and creating special spaces for site-specific commissioned New Zealand sculpture. In recent times however, a large mural-scale billboard has also been a feature of the park and now, annually, submissions are invited by photographers and photo-media artists to create a work which will sit for a year within this awe-inspiring environment. ART+OBJECT are delighted to have been invited to help make up the selection panel along with trustees of the park and James Gow. Submissions must be received by the 31st of August. Enquiries can be directed to info@connellsbay.co.nz.

Catalogue Online Now!

With Michael Smither's 1978 masterpiece adorning the cover, ART+OBJECT's latest major art catalogue is out now.

Wellington Viewing - Installation shots

Wellington Viewing

Wellington Preview and Exhibition Viewing

We are open this Thursday night to preview highlights from the upcoming July 30th auction of Important New Zealand Paintings in Wellington. Come on down to Chaffers Gallery between 6:00pm and 8:00pm to view a lovely selection of highlights. The catalogue will be available early exclusively to Wellington clients and is without doubt our finest catalogue since, probably, our last one... If you can't make it on Thursday night we are open Friday 10:00 - 5:00pm, Saturday 11:00 - 4:00pm and Sunday 11:00 -2:30pm, before driving back to Auckland where we'll do it all over again. We look forward to seeing you.

Strange...

Jeffrey Harris's Stranger in a Strange Land was offered way back in A+O's November 2007 Important Paintings and Sculpture auction where it was one of the stars of the show. The work had great exhibiton history and provenance, featuring heavily in the promotional material for Justin Paton's D.P.A.G 2004/2005 retrospective exhibiton. The work was withdrawn at the time of auction due to a dispute of ownership and has sat in storage at A+O since. Last week the work, after clear title was finally established, was sold to a Christchurch collector who has lived with a reproduction of the work on an exhibiton flier since the show. He registered interest at the original auction and was clearly disappointed when the painting was withdrawn. Congratulations to him and I guess good things come to those who wait...