Roland Hipkins Britain, New Zealand, 1894-1951

Works in the database
54
Works with images
21
Works with multiple sales
7
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Past Sales

Cornwall
Deserted Homestead, c1932
Untitled Art Class Beach Scene (Hawkes Bay)
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Sales by Medium

Works on Paper
Sold 31 works for
$10,184
Prints & Graphics
Sold 5 works for
$5,489
Paintings
Sold 2 works for
$1,850
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Where to buy or sell art works by Roland Hipkins

Auction Houses

Dunbar Sloane
Sold 20 works for
$8,322
Webb's
Sold 7 works for
$5,420
International Art Centre
Sold 6 works for
$2,017
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About Roland Hipkins

Born in the United Kingdom in 1894, Roland Hipkins studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He moved to New Zealand in 1922 to take up a teaching position at Napier Technical College. In 1929 he began teaching at the Technical School of Art in Wellington, where he remained until his death in 1951. Hipkin's work is descriptive, with modernist tendencies in its emphasis on pattern and colour.

The total number of works by Roland Hipkins offered for sale by auction since 1973 is 54, of which 38 (70%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $4,190 for Deserted Homestead sold by Webb's in September 2022. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Roland Hipkins are held by the Museum Of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.

Roland Hipkins 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 130
  • McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 116
  • 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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