Peter Siddell New Zealand, 1935-2011
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About Peter Siddell
Peter Siddell was born in Auckland in 1935 and attended Mount Albert Grammar School. He initially worked as an electrician and then a teacher but after his 1972 sellout solo exhibition at Moller's Gallery in Auckland he took up painting full time. He has gone on to become one of New Zealand's most admired painters with works in most public and corporate collections. In 1978 he won the Air New Zealand Travel Award and the Benson & Hedges Supplementary Art Award. In 1991 Siddell received a Queens Service Order (QSO). He was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art in 2008, an honour that was redesignated as Knight Companion of the Order in 2009.
Peter Siddell is one of the most prolific of the artists listed in our database, with the number of works offered for sale by auction since 1988 of 548, of which 445 (81%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $177,465 for Opening sold by International Art Centre in July 2012. This year 8 works have been offered for sale. Works by Peter Siddell are held by the Auckland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery and a further two major public national galleries (see list below).
Peter Siddell is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- Gil Docking, with additions by Michael Gunn covering 1970-90. Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, David Bateman Ltd., New Zealand, 1990 Page 220
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 225
- 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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