Tommorow night between 6:00 and 8:00pm we open the Ross Morrison collection. Ross will be in attendance as will wines from Invivo. Please feel free to come down and join us for a glass and to take in the collection. Further to this we are on view Friday through to Tuesday lunchtime including weekend viewing between 11:00 - 4:00pm both days.
ART+OBJECT's final art sale of the year is shaping very well with several significant early consignments including major paintings by Bill Hammond, Gordon Walters, Colin McCahon and Richard Killeen. Among the rarer and more important paintings we've offered over the years though will be this rare portrait by Rita Angas of her brother, Alan. The painting has good provenance having been long-held in a private Wellington collection and will be offered with an estimate of $160 000 - $220 000. Further quality consignments of 20th and 21st Century art are now invited into what will be a small and high-quality catalogue.
In conjunction with the Adam Art Gallery exhibition Behind Closed Doors: NZ Art from Private Collections in Wellington currently on show until December 18th, the Adam is running a series of events where Victoria University academics speak with art practitioners and those working in the field. On the 8th of September Art auctioneer and A+O Director Ben Plumbly will debate and review factors which have informed recent art market dynamics with economic theorist and academic, Morris Altman. It takes place at the Adam between 6:00 and 7:00pm on Thursday the 8th of September and is open to the public.
Our 'art' auction last Thursday night witnessed a healthy crowd, a high sell-through rate and some strong prices. Top selling lot on the night was Don Binney's above painting, The Madness of the Pipiwharauroa and a new artist record was comfortably acheived for Liz Maw's, Colleen from 2005. Here is a brief list of some of the highlights:
Followers of our news site and catalogues will be aware of our place on the panel which assists Connell's Bay Sculpture Park trust members in selecting the winner of the bi-annual photographic installation at the sculpture park on Waiheke Island. At 2. 5 x 5 metres the commission represents a rare opportunity for photographers to produce an image on a mural scale. The inaugural winner was Anne Noble with Spool Henge. This year's winner is Gavin Hipkins who is familiar with working on this type of scale having produced similarly-scaled billboard images for Macraes Heritage and Art Park in Otago. The image will be installed in April of next year.
Please note we will be kicking off tonight's auction at 6:00pm sharp (not the usual 6:30pm) due to the size of the sale.
We are on view Saturday and Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm and throughout the week until the auction on Thursday evening at 6:00pm.
The Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore will be the new home of the 7.5 tonne, 135 year old lithographic press from Muka Studios here in Auckland. In order to house it they have recently acquired an old church and are working towards fitting it out with artist-in-residence accomodation. In order to assist with raising the considerable relocation fee for the press and for the new residence, the Eastern Southland Gallery are holding a fundraising auction on the weekend of the 25th of November which will be conducted by ART+OBJECT. A valuation day will also be conducted at the gallery whereby Southland residents can bring their artworks in for appraisal and for insurance valuations by the A+O team.
Our 46th catalogue, simply entitled 'art', went to print last night. Tomorrow we will post an online version with complimentaries and subscribers receiving their physical copies later in the week. The sale is a departure from our usual tightly edited and focused art catalogues being more of a combination of our New Collectors and Important Paintings and Contemporary Art sale categories. Clocking in at some 220 lots, we would like to think there should something for everyone...
Ross Morrison has been a long standing friend, colleague and client of us here at A+O. Really, if you are a collector or have an interest in the very best of 20th Century and vintage design it would be impossible not to have come across him. Today Ross runs Mr Mod (http://www.mrmod.co.nz/) and like all Christchurch residents has found the realities of his business and day-to-day life somewhat different post the quakes. We are delighted to be offeirng on September 8th some of the very best design and objet d'art which Ross has come across in his 30 odd years of trading and collecting acround the globe. We will preview the sale in the upcoming art catalogue before going into production for a standalone Ross Morrison Collection catalogue late this month.