David John Payne Britain, New Zealand, 1880-1959
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About David John Payne
Born in England in 1880, David Payne trained as a painter, etcher, lithographer and metal and craft worker before his arrival in Auckland in 1906. He exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts, the Canterbury Society of Arts, and showed at the British Empire Exhibition in London in 1924, and the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin in 1925-6, and belonged to the Quoin Club, a graphic arts club formed in Auckland in 1916. His work is represented in the Hocken Library. ,p>Payne died in 1959.
In our database, 56 works by David Payne are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1994, of which 33 (59%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,080 for Seated Nude in the Artist's Studio sold by Webb's in March 1998. This year 2 works have been offered for sale. Works by David Payne are held by the Auckland Art Gallery.
David John Payne 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 195
- 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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