Tuesday 1 March will see the 233 lot sale of New Collectors Art with a low/high estimate range of $358,000/$550,000.
Vendors for this sale include The Estate of Gregory Flint, and Bob and Barbara Harvey.
Greg Flint (1952 – 2010) was one of New Zealand’s pioneering art dealers. In the 80s and 90s Flint exhibited some of New Zealand’s cutting edge contemporary art by artists such as Michael Stevenson, Bill Hammond, Ronnie van Hout, L. Budd, Judy Darragh, Ruth Watson, Marie Shannon and Gavin Chilcott.
Bob Harvey is the former mayor of Waitakere and prior to that had a long career in advertising and the media. After over 30 years in their Glenfield, Auckland home Bob and his wife Barbara will soon be moving to a new address and have decided to sell their art collection of many years.
Their collection includes all the names in New Zealand art from the 1950s to the 1980s with works by Colin McCahon, Robin White, Peter and Sylvia Siddell, Gretchen Albrecht, Ruth Cole, Michael Smither and David Kennedy.
This will be followed by The Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins Collection of Modern Design & Decorator Items on Wednesday 2 March.
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins is Director of the Hawkes Bay Museum and regarded as the leading authority in New Zealand for modernist design and architecture in New Zealand. He wrote the book on New Zealand 20th century design, At Home, A Century of New Zealand Design which was published in 2004.
His collection, assembled since the 1980s contains many pieces which are now regarded as icons of New Zealand design.
Hamish Coney, A+O Managing Director says that as well as the Douglas’ collection, “other vendors have seized the opportunity and the catalogue has been expanded to include classic examples of Keith Murray, Clarice Cliff and superb examples of Eames, Marcel Breuer, Bernard Moore, Eileen Gray and Louis Poulsen. The accent is on New Zealand design, but the international pieces really contextualize the furniture and ceramics being produced here in the period 1940 – 1960.”
The final sale day on Thursday 3 March will see the sale of The Arts Of The Samurai & Asian Art, and Oceanic Art.
These sales include two distinguished private collections, including the collection of Wellington based collector and Orientalist Harry Pappafloratos.
The Oceanic artefacts section, assembled in the 1950s, includes rare items such as 19th century Ambrym Island Tam Tam, (slit drum) – estimated at NZD$8,000 - $16,000 and a Malekula Island Temes Nevimbure grade ceremony figure, estimated at NZD $3,000 - $5,000.
Another item of interest is a large Papua New Guinea cargo cult shield made from a 44 gallon drum and decorated with the face of the Phantom and inscribed Phantom vs Evil, estimate NZD$2,000 - $3,000.
The lots in the three day sale are the largest and most diverse range of objects ever offered by the Auckland based auction house says Coney, “A+O has been favoured with five collections of the highest calibre. It makes for great opportunities for collectors in genres seldom offered comprehensively in New Zealand. All of these collections have been assembled to museum quality over many decades.’
With fortuitous timing A+O has boosted is specialist staff with the appointment of Giulia Rodighiero to the role of Operations Executive . Giulia is a specialist in Chinese Art with a degree from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and a masters degree in Asian Arts and Archaeology University of London. She also spent a year in China studying Chinese Art at the Beijing University.
Formerly with Christies, London where she worked in the Asian Art Department Giulia was instrumental in researching and preparing the Asian section of the catalogue.
