Denis Knight Turner New Zealand, 1924-2011
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About Denis Knight Turner
A New Zealand artist, born in Whanganui 1924, Denis Turner lived for a time at Waitomo, but later moved to Auckland. From 1947 he exhibited landscapes, animal drawings and works based on Maori and other Oceanic motifs and was also known for his portraits in the 1940s and 1950s. His style has been described as an expressionistic type of realism. He moved to England in 1964 believing that New Zealand could not support full-time career artists. He returned to Whanganui in 1992 to complete a residency where he completed a number of watercolour paintings, some of which were selected for a retrospective exhibition toured by the Auckland University Gus Fisher Gallery in 2014.
In our database, 348 works by Denis Turner are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1989, of which 216 (62%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $23,427 for Abstract Painting with Polynesian Motifs sold by Webb's in September 2022. This year 3 works have been offered for sale. Works by Denis Turner are held by the Auckland Art Gallery.
Denis Knight Turner 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 251
- 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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