Alison Duff New Zealand, 1914-2000
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About Alison Duff
Born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1914, Alison Duff studied in Christchurch at the Canterbury School of Art and East Sydney Technical College from where she graduated in 1938. She taught art in both Australia and New Zealand A modernist sculptor, she worked in wood, stone, bronze, brass copper and concrete and exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts, the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1934 and 1967 and The Group, based in Christchurch in 1968.
In our database, 12 works by Alison Duff are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1994, of which 9 (75%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $8,456 for Kingfisher sold by Webb's in April 2003. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2020. Works by Alison Duff are held by the Auckland Art Gallery.
Alison Duff 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 69
- 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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