Ruth Cole New Zealand, 1961-.
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About Ruth Cole
Born in Winchester, England in 1961, Ruth Cole arrived in New Zealand in 1972. She studied at the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Art, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and then in 1988, a Masters degree in Fine Arts (1st Class Hons). After a period in Germany from 1989 to 1993, she returned to live in Auckland.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Ruth Cole from 1994 and in total 52 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 39 (75%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $4,031 for Coromandel Coastal Landscape sold by Webb's in December 2002. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022.
Ruth Cole 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 48
- 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.
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 610,000 works by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and an additional 36,000 foreign and other artists, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present day.
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