Hilda Blanche (Cora) Wilding New Zealand, Britain, France, 1888-1982
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About Cora Wilding
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1888, Cora Wilding studied at the Canterbury School of Art in the late 1890s, then in England and later with Frances Hodgkins in Paris in 1908. She toured Tahiti, California and Europe from 1920 to 1925. She returned to New Zealand, living in Christchurch, and in 1948 she moved to Kaikoura in the South Island where she spent the remainder of her life. In 1952 she was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community.
In our database, 34 works by Cora Wilding are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1992, of which 25 (74%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,376 for Poultry Market, Spain sold by Webb's in July 1992. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022.
Cora Wilding 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 270
- 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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