Rita Angus New Zealand, Britain, 1908-70
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About Rita Angus
Born at Hastings, New Zealand in 1908, Rita Angus (Cook) studied at the Canterbury School of Art, Christchurch. She has been hailed, along with Toss Woollaston and Colin McCahon, as helping to establish new traditions in New Zealand painting during the 1930s and 1940s.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Rita Angus from 1985 and in total 219 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 152 (69%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $828,409 for Hawke's Bay Landscape, c.1955 sold by Deutscher and Hackett in May 2022. This year 4 works have been offered for sale. Works by Rita Angus are held by the Museum Of New Zealand, Christchurch Art Gallery and a further three major public national galleries (see list below).
Rita Angus 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 146
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 4
- 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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