Irvine J. Major New Zealand, 1922-2000
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About Irvine J. Major
New Zealand artist Irvine Major was born in 1922 and works in oils and acrylics and also creates multiples such as etchings, lithographs and screenprints. Irvine Major died in 2000.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Irvine Major from 1997 and in total 28 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 18 (64%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $4,014 for Canterbury Centennial Celebrations sold by Dunbar Sloane in April 2007. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022. Works by Irvine Major are held by the Suter Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and Christchurch Art Gallery.
Irvine J. Major 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 158
- 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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