We've never been big on brandying around the 'private treaty' sale thing but today we are celebrating successfully concluding the brokering of a sale of a very important Colin McCahon work. One year in the making, the deal involved the passing from one private collector to another one of the more important McCahon paintings left in private hands. Details of the deal remain confidential but we can confirm a seven figure sale price. Following on from the public sale of the Elias painting in April for $570 000, it has been a great year for art sales at A+O as well as for the market of New Zealand's most important and widely-respected artist which had been somewhat depressed in previous years...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
ART+OBJECT Broker Sale of Major Colin McCahon Painting
We've never been big on brandying around the 'private treaty' sale thing but today we are celebrating successfully concluding the brokering of a sale of a very important Colin McCahon work. One year in the making, the deal involved the passing from one private collector to another one of the more important McCahon paintings left in private hands. Details of the deal remain confidential but we can confirm a seven figure sale price. Following on from the public sale of the Elias painting in April for $570 000, it has been a great year for art sales at A+O as well as for the market of New Zealand's most important and widely-respected artist which had been somewhat depressed in previous years...
