Jane Pountney New Zealand, 1949-2004
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About Jane Pountney
Born in Rotorua, New Zealand in 1949, Jane Pountney completed a Diploma of Education in 1968 and taught in both Australia and New Zealand and she began painting part-time in the 1970s. A contemporary landscape painter, she exhibited widely in New Zealand, with solo shows at a number of dealer galleries,in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as showing her work at the Dowse Art Gallery in Lower Hutt, City Gallery Wellington, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, and the Auckland Art Gallery. A retrospective of her work Jane Pountney – Wade in the Water was held at City Gallery Wellingotn in 2005.
In our database, 10 works by Jane Pountney are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1996, of which 7 (70%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,282 for White Terraces (1992) sold by Dunbar Sloane in April 2016. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2020. Works by Jane Pountney are held by the Museum Of New Zealand and Auckland Art Gallery.
Jane Pountney 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 202
- 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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