Frank Davis New Zealand, 1934-83
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About Frank Davis
Born in Wellington in 1934, Frank Davis studied at the Canterbury School of Fine Art, he worked with a vaiety of media including painting, printmaking, photography and design. A founder of the Maori Artists and Writers Group, he became head of art at Palmerston North Teachers College.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Frank Davis from 1991 and in total 10 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 6 (60%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,420 for The Changing Room sold by International Art Centre in July 1999. This year one work has been offered for sale.
Frank Davis 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 60
- 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.
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 610,000 works by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and an additional 36,000 foreign and other artists, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present day.
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