Annie Elizabeth Kelly New Zealand, 1877-1946
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About aka A. E. Abbott Kelly
A New Zealand artist born in Christchurch in 1877, Annie Elizabeth Abbott studied in Christchurch under G H Elliott and P Van der Velden, from 1892 to 1902 at the Canterbury School of Fine Art. She continued her studies when she travelled to Europe in the early 1900s. From 1899 she exhibited as 'A. E. Abbott' until her marriage to artist C. F. Kelly in 1908 when she signed her work 'A Elizabeth Kelly'. She exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts, at the Paris Salon and Royal Academy. Noted for her portraits, she won a silver medal at the Paris Salon in 1934. She was the first New Zealand woman to receive the CBE for Services to Art.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Annie Kelly from 1988 and in total 106 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 81 (76%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $12,661 for Couple at River's Edge sold by Dunbar Sloane in November 2005. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Annie Kelly are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and a further two major public national galleries (see list below).
aka A. E. Abbott Kelly 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 112
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 138
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