Rita Angus | Still Life With Cyclamens. oil on canvas on board, 500 x 395mm
Est: $30,000 NZD - $50,000 NZD
Passed
Watsons Auction House
Christchurch, New Zealand
July 27, 2010
Rita Angus | Cinerarias, 1942, watercolor on paper,240 x225 mm., Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Gift of Gwyneth Brown, 2010
Rita Angus | Flood, Hawkeβs Bay, 1955, oil on canvas, 452mm (height), 485mm (length), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Bequest of George Allison Eiby, 1992
Rita Angus | Cass, 1936, oil on canvas on board, 550 mm Γ 650 mm (22 in Γ 26 in), Christchurch Art Gallery
It has been described as "one of the defining works of the 1930s and indeed of New Zealand art history," and was voted "New Zealand's greatest painting" in a 2006 television poll.
Rita Angus | Marjorie Marshall, 1938-39/1943 , oil on canvas adhered to plywood, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Angus and Marshall met as art students in Christchurch. This work was painted after Angus visited Marshall in Central Otago, near Lake WΔnaka.
Rita Angus | Leo Bensemann, 1938, oil on canvas, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Leo Vernon Bensemann OBE (1 May 1912 β 2 January 1986) was a New Zealand artist, printer, typographer, publisher and editor.
Angus was reluctant to sell this work and kept it until her death.
Born #OTD Rita Angus (12 March 1908 β 25 January 1970) was a New Zealand painter.
Self-portrait, 1936-37, 490 x 400 mm., Oil on canvas, Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1980 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council.
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Casual Meeting, 1928, oil on canvas 20.25 x 24.25 in.
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Box Party, 1936, Oil, tempera and graphite pencil on canvas, 153 cm x 117.5 cm, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Counting Cards, oil with graphite pencil on canvas 24 x 20 in., The Phillips Collection
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Reading a Letter, 1927, oil on canvas 30 x 25 in.
Verso bears label inscribed in ink: βPortrait / Kenneth Hayes Miller/ Property of Alan Burroughs / c/o The Fogg Art Museumβ.
Kenneth Hayes Miller | The Fitting Room, 1931, Oil and tempera on canvas, mounted on Masonite, 71.1 x 86.4 cm (28 x 34 in.), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Kenneth Hayes Miller, Bargain Hunters, 1940, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Β© 1940, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.65
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Daydream, 1926, oil on canvas 51 x 43 cm., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Juliana R. Force, 1929.97
Kenneth Hayes Miller | Woman Sleeping, 1926, oil on canvas, 34 x 25 in.
Exhibited:
Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, Twenty-Fifth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Oct.-Dec. 1926, no. 79;
New London, CT, Lyman Allyn Museum, 1932
Born #OTD Kenneth Hayes Miller (11 March 11, 1876 β January 1, 1952) was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher.
Photo of Kenneth Hayes Miller, c. 1910
Originally published in: Archives of American Art Journal v. 13, no. 2, p. 20.
Margaret Morris | CafΓ© Crystal, 1920, oil on canvas, 78.5 x 91.2 cm., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross), gift from Robin Anderson and Jim Hastie, 2011
Margaret Morris | Red Roofs (Dieppe), 1922, oil on board, 35.5 x 27.3 cm., National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Margaret Morris | Angela Badie, 1917, oil on board on cardboard, 49 x 40.5 cm., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross), gift from Robin Anderson and Jim Hastie, 2011
Margaret Morris | Kathleen and Mirror, 1915, oil on card on board, 42.5 x 34 cm., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross), gift from Robin Anderson and Jim Hastie, 2011
Margaret Morris | Flossie Jolley, 1920, oil on canvas, 51.4 x 41 cm., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross), gift from the International Association of Margaret Morris Movement, 2010
Margaret Morris | Flossie Jolley, c. 1915, oil on canvas, 39.5cm x 27cm 15.5in x 10.5in., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross)
John Duncan Fergusson (9 March 1874 β 30 January 1961) | Danu, Mother of the Gods, 1952, oil on canvas, 184 x 123 cm., The Fergusson Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross)
Margaret Morris, the artist's wife, was the model for this painting.
Born #OTD Margaret Morris (10 March 1891 β 29 February 1980), was a British dancer, choreographer, artist and writer.
Fred Daniels | Margaret Morris at the Opening of her Cromwell Road School, London, 1935
Marisa Mori | Cabins on the beach, 1930
oil on plywood
26 x 49 cm. (10.24 x 19.29 in.)
private collection
Marisa Mori | The Convent, 1929
oil on cardboard
37 x 27 cm. (14.57 x 10.63 in.)
private collection
Marisa Mori | The Tent at the Sea, 1930
oil on cardboard
50 x 73 cm. (19.69 x 28.74 in.)
private collection
Marisa Mori | The Two Girls, 1928-30
oil on cardboard
127 x 91 cm. (50 x 35.83 in.)
private collection
Marisa Mori | Reading on the Beach, s.d.
oil on board
32 x 33 cm. (12.6 x 13 in.)
private collection
Marisa Mori | Self Portrait, 1930
oil on wood
51 x 44 cm. (20.08 x 17.32 in.)
private collection
