Robert Nettleton Field New Zealand, 1899-1987

Works in the database
82
Works with images
70
Works with multiple sales
11
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Past Sales

Faith and Hope
Christine de Wolfe, 1970
Christine de Wolfe, 1970
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Sales by Medium

Paintings
Sold 24 works for
$97,389
Works on Paper
Sold 17 works for
$16,710
Prints & Graphics
Sold 2 works for
$1,178
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Where to buy or sell art works by Robert Nettleton Field

Auction Houses

International Art Centre
Sold 16 works for
$52,015
Webb's
Sold 15 works for
$36,248
Art+Object
Sold 5 works for
$15,482
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About Robert Nettleton Field

Born in 1899, Robert Field studied at the Royal College of Art, London from 1919 to 1923. He arrived in New Zealand in 1925. He was a painter, sculptor, writer and teacher of modern art at Dunedin Technical College. Field exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts, The Otago Art Society in 1926 and 1927 and The Group, based in Canterbury from 1931.

In our database, 82 works by Robert Field are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1992, of which 43 (52%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $14,637 for Mt Eden from Cornwall Park sold by Webb's in June 2001. This year 2 works have been offered for sale. Works by Robert Field are held by the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and Christchurch Art Gallery.

Robert Nettleton Field is listed in the following standard biographical references:

  • Gil Docking, with additions by Michael Gunn covering 1970-90. Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, David Bateman Ltd., New Zealand, 1990 Page 124
  • McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 81
  • 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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