Francis Irwin Hunt New Zealand, 1890-1981
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About Francis Irwin Hunt
A New Zealand artist, Francis Hunt was born in Cambridge New Zealand in 1890. He learnt art at the F. Wright Academy In Auckland and the Elam School of Fine Art in the early 1930s. He became known as a portrait still life and landscape painter. During the 1940s he was active in Auckland, exhibiting with the Rutland Art Group, formed in 1935 by ex-Elam Art School students in opposition to the Art Societies.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Francis Hunt from 1988 and in total 54 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 33 (61%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $3,548 for Cubist Abstract sold by International Art Centre in October 2021. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022. Works by Francis Hunt are held by the Auckland Art Gallery.
Francis Irwin Hunt 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 124
- 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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