Boyd Webb New Zealand, Britain, 1947-.
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About Boyd Webb
A visual artist who uses the medium of photography, Boyd Webb was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and attended the Ilam School of Art from 1968 to 1971 then travelled to London in 1972 to study at the Royal College of Art. After graduation in 1975, he stayed on in London, and had his first solo exhibition in 1976. Since then he has exhibited widely in New Zealand, Europe and America and has four works in the Tate Collection, London. Major exhibition venues include Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, Auckland Art Gallery touring exhibition, and Museum Fredericianum Kassel. He represented was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1988 and represented New Zealand in the Sydney Biennale in 1995.
The earliest auction listing we have for Boyd Webb is in 2000 and in total 17 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 8 (47%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $20,215 for Tosser sold by Webb's in December 2003. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Boyd Webb are held by the Museum Of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery and a further five major public national galleries (see list below).
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