Stanley Palmer New Zealand, 1936-.
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About Stanley Palmer
Born in Coromandel, New Zealand in 1936, Stanley Palmer studied at Dunedin Technical College in the late 1950s. A painter and printmaker, his first exhibition was in 1958, and in 1969 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Art Council grant, at which time he became a full time artist. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in the main cities of New Zealand.
Stanley Palmer is one of the most prolific of the artists listed in our database, with the number of works offered for sale by auction since 1990 of 1,100, of which 957 (87%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $43,292 for Untitled sold by Webb's in August 2022. This year 20 works have been offered for sale. Works by Stanley Palmer are held by the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and a further two major public national galleries (see list below).
Stanley Palmer 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.
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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