Kathleen (Kitty) Airini Vane New Zealand, 1891-1965
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About Kitty Vane
Kathleen Airini Vane was a daughter of Captain Gilbert Mair, a Native Land Court Judge, and his wife Eleanor Kate Sperry, herself an accomplished painter. From the age of 21 Kitty Mair studied in London at the Slade School of Art and was in Brittany with a party of students when World War I began in 1914. She served as a nursing aide in France and in 1917 married the Hon.Ralph Vane, a younger son of Lord Barnard. After his death in 1928 she travelled and painted in North Africa, Cyprus, Malta, Fiji and New Zealand. She finally returned to New Zealand in 1951. Airini, or Kitty, Vane was notable for her watercolours of mountain and seashore, the latter often centred on pohutukawa trees in flower.
In our database, 290 works by Kitty Vane are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1973, of which 234 (81%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,217 for Near Take Tekapo sold by FishersOnlineArt/ Fishers Fine Arts in October 1994. This year 3 works have been offered for sale.
Kitty Vane 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 255
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