Alvin Pankhurst New Zealand, 1949-.
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About Alvin Pankhurst
A New Zealand artist born in 1949, Alvin Pankhurst studied graphic design at Wellington Polytechnic School of design from 1966 to 1969. He first exhibited his surrealist and in 1970 and became known in the 1970s for his realist and surrealistic paintings. He won the Benson & Hedges Art Award in 1974. Since then he has exhibited in New Zealand and internationally including in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2001.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Alvin Pankhurst from 1996 and in total 48 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 33 (69%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $47,483 for About Time sold by International Art Centre in July 2013. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Alvin Pankhurst are held by the Museum Of New Zealand.
Alvin Pankhurst is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 192
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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