HORSE RACING
Title: Unknown
Artist: Unknown
Material: Oil
Picture Size: 50cm X 60cm
Year: Unknown
Conditions: Excellent
High quality and hand painted. Photos are of the actual painting you are buying. Paintings are stretched on wooden frames and gallery wrapped ready to hang. (paint down the sides of picture). Vibrate and gorgeous horse racing painting!
JANE WILSON – FATHER READING TO CHILD
- Title: Untitled
Artist: Jane Wilson
Material: Oil on canvas
Frame Size: 70cm x 50cm
Year: 1987
Conditions: Good
Jane wilson’s oil painting. Father reading to child 1987.
JOHN JOHNSTON – OLD SHED KING COUNTRY (AWARDED)
Title: Old Shed King Country
Artist: John Johnston
Material: Oil
Oil Size: 34.5cm x 24.5cm
Frame Size: 49cm x 39cm
Year: 1970s / early 1980s
Conditions: Excellent
John Johnston was an Auckland painter and photographer. This painting won a New Zealand Painting and Printmaker Award, but cannot trace the year. It would have been in the 1970s or early 1980s.
LARGE ANTIQUE – F.E. GARDNER FINE ARTS 1895
Title: Untitled
Artist: F.E. Gardner
Material: Oil on board
Frame Size: 110cm x 70cm
Year: 1895-1910
Conditions: General – a crack on the left-top corner and a cockled on the right bottom corner (as per photos)
F.E. Gardner exhibited at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1897-1899, according to their published records. It is a very accomplished work possibly of that period 1895-1910. This is an original signed oil painting. It’s very large and in an original rewarewa native timber wood frame. Its size is huge at 1100mm high and 700mm wide. For those who collect very rare New Zealand fine art old painting artists may be interested in this.
This is a very fine detailed oil painting of some of New Zealand traditional native botany and FE Gardner may have been an artist painting New Zealand Botany to be used coloured plate illustrations in very old NZ books. The painting is signed on the back. This is very special an original. Hard to see another one.. Not of this size.
Lindsay Crooks – Self Portrait in Landscape
Title: Self Portrait in Landscape
Artist: Lindsay Crooks (1957-2005)
Material: Mixed Media
Oil Size: 120cm x 88.5cm
Frame Size: 124cm x 92.2cm
Year: 1977
Conditions: General
Titled on the back “Self Portrait in Landscape” by the late artist Lindsay Crooks. Dated on back 1977 on label.
Large work and measures W 124 x H 92 cm including frame.
Mixed media – acrylic and collage on board as detailed on the back.
In original frame with details on back.
As the photos show the work is “tired”, could do with a good clean, has several marks with some chips in the paint.
From a very early period in the artist career.
Well Known Dunedin Artist who held 80 solo exhibitions around New Zealand, Australia, and England with work held in private collections around the world.
NANCY DE FREITAS – BLOOD FLOORS/CLAY WALLS (HUGE)
Title: Blood Floor/Clay Walls
Artist: Nancy de Freitas
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Oil Size: 130cm x 110cm
Frame Size: 134cm x 114cm
Year: 1992
Conditions: Excellent
Nancy de Freitas Large Acrylic On Canvas. “Blood Floors/Clay Walls” part of her family album series. Signed & dated 92 bottom right. The image is in “Very Good” condition. The Rimu frame is also “Very Good”.
For the author’s explain, the three rooms refer to: 1) the place of the family/mother relationship 2) the honing of independence in wider relationships (ie to the family/siblings first) and 3) the growth of ego and personal strength. The bald heads refer to our human vulnerability and innocence.
All of the paintings in this series had a reflective/dark side and consider them to be the best of Nancy’s whole career. This one, ‘Blood Floor, Clay Walls’, is the cornerstone painting of the series. Hope to get a public gallery collection or a significant private collection so that it could be seen by many.