Beatrix Charlotte Dobie New Zealand, 1887-1945
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About Beatrix Charlotte Dobie
Born 'Beatrix Dobbie' in New Zealand in 1887, this artist later changed her name to Beatrix Dobie. She left New Zealand to study overseas in 1911 at the Slade School of Art, returning about 1919. She exhibited her paintings many of them of horses with the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1919-1926, and illustrated conservationist H Guthrie-Smith's book Tuitira, the Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station.. In 1926 Dobie married Rene Vernon in Tunisia.
In our database, 24 works by Beatrix Dobie are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1990, of which 20 (83%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,881 for October Toil sold by International Art Centre in July 2009. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Beatrix Dobie are held by the Auckland Art Gallery and Museum Of New Zealand.
Beatrix Charlotte Dobie 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 66
- 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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