Works in the database
19
Works with images
16
Works with multiple sales
0

Past Sales

The Gum Diggers Story' Original Illustrations, 1924
Nikau
Illustrations from 'The Gumdigger's Story by A. Leigh Hunt'

Sales by Medium

Works on Paper
Sold 10 works for
$11,756
Paintings
Sold 1 works for
$3,226

Where to buy or sell art works by Arthur Herbert Messenger

Auction Houses

Cordy's
Sold 5 works for
$12,378
Dunbar Sloane
Sold 5 works for
$2,448
International Art Centre
Sold 1 works for
$156

New Zealand artist Arthur Messenger was born in 1877 and is a watercolourist. Arthur Messenger died in 1962.

The total number of works by Arthur Messenger offered for sale by auction since 1994 is 19, of which 11 (58%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $3,226 for Nine Entitled Maori War Scenes sold by Cordy's in August 2007. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Arthur Messenger are held by the Museum Of New Zealand.

Arthur Herbert Messenger 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 171
  • 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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