Josephine Mary Muntz-Adams Australia, 1862-1949
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About Josephine Mary Muntz-Adams
Born in Victoria in 1862, Muntz-Adams studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, and in and in Paris and London. A portait and lanscape artist, she exhibited twice at the Old Salon in Paris. She lived in Brisbane for a period in the early 1900s and was art instructor at the Central Technical College in Brisbane. She returned to Melbourne in 1922 where she continued her portraiture.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Josephine Muntz-Adams from 1969 and in total 203 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 151 (74%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $73,636 for Self Portrait, C.1896 sold by Deutscher and Hackett in November 2021. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Josephine Muntz-Adams are held by the Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria and a further two major public national galleries (see list below).
Josephine Mary Muntz-Adams is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 706
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
No, ineligible. The artist has been deceased for more than 70 years.
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