Wellington Appraisals Next Week

Director of Art, Ben Plumbly will be in Wellington next Tuesday and Wednesday the 31st of August and 1st September appraising entries for the November sale of Important Paintings and Contemporary Art. To make an appointment please email ben@artandobject.co.nz or call him on 021 222 8183.

Venue Hire

Three or four times a year we hire our space out to functions various. Tonight it is the thirtieth year celebration party for Fashion Quarterly Magazine. Judging by how its looking at 5:00pm it could be quite a big night.

Rare Book Auction: Wednesday 18th August

On view at A+O from Sunday 15th August at 11.00am is a quality offering of 450 lots of Rare and Out of Print Books. Highlights include:

A Boer war diary, a highly detailed account of the Boer war by an English volunteer. Est $1200. Other early Boer war titles.
Two private collections of cricketing and fishing books including Triangular Cricket by E.H. D. Sewell, several first edition fishing books by Zane Grey; Rough Guide to New Zealand Big Game Fishing by C.Alma Baker 1937 [Private Circulation ].
A large selection of New Zealand regional Histories including many from Otago and Southland, “King of the Bluff” by Hall-Jones, “Titi Heritage” by Eva Wilson “West Coast Sounds” by Malcolm Ross. Early plan of the Thames Gold Fields. Subdivision Plan of Piha.
A fine copy of Dan Davin’s first book “Cliffs of Fall” Est $600.
Indigenous Plants of the Hawaiian Islands by Mrs Frances Sinclair. Est $2000
Early Australian, Pitcairn Island and Pacific Histories includes Friendly & Feejee Islands by W. Lawry [ signed by Queen Salote ] Est $600
Childrens books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, May Gibbs, Edmund Dulac, Heath Robinson.
Three Rugby Scrapbooks.
Authors Edition of 12 Volume by Arthur Conan Doyle, “The White Company” signed by him. Est $800

Inquiries to Pam Plumbly

books@trevorplumbly.co.nz
Book Consultant
ART+OBJECT, 3 Abbey St, Newton.
Phones: Mobile 021 448200 ; A + O [09] 354 4646; Fax [09] 354 4645 ; Office ; [09] 3781153

Next Important Paintings and Contemporary Art Sale Scheduled for November 23

Michael Illingworth
Untitled (1965)

Further entries now invited, for a confidential and confident market appraisal contact Ben Plumbly ben@artandobject.co.nz.

The Estate of Brian Brake

Offerings to the Unknown Dead – Kyoto, 1964.
vintage colour photograph
460 x 665mm
$7000 - $12 000


On December 7th ART+OBJECT is to offer over 60 vintage prints from the estate of Brian Brake. A book will be published to mark this landmark event and the auction will coincide with a posthumous retrospective held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Highlights include a complete boxed portfolio of twenty images of Picasso at the Bullfight, a large number of prints from the iconic Monsoon series and numerous images from the landmark Shadbolt/Brake publication New Zealand: Gift of the Sea. No outside entries will be accepted and further details are to come.