John Crichton Britain, New Zealand, 1917-93
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About John Crichton
John Crichton was born in Bombay in 1917 and moved to England as a child. He studied at Birmingham College of Art. During World War II, he served as an official war photographer. He moved to New Zealand in 1949, establishing John Crichton Limited, in Auckland, offering interior design services. He designed and sold furniture, lighting and ceramics. and was an artist working in mosaics, pen and ink and watercolour. He was a founder of the New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers (NZSID) in 1959, elected to membership soon after the Society's incorporation in 1960, and served on its council to 1966. Crichton died in New Zealand on 7 January 1993. Examples of his work are held in the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Our database records art auction sales of works by John Crichton from 1998 and in total 27 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 15 (56%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $1,988 for On the Beach, Bostaquet Bay, Kawau Island sold by International Art Centre in February 2015. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022.
John Crichton is listed in the following standard biographical references:
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