BULK BUYER
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 22. The Auckland artist Michael Illingworth got the shock of his life when he arrived late for the opening of his exhibition at the Barry Lett gallery in Victoria street tonight. Just before he arrived, an Auckland man signed a cheque for about £l5OO and bought the entire exhibition except for four
paintings, which went to other buyers. The anonymous collector bought 17 paintings.
Mr B. G. Lett, a director of the gallery, said the sale was “certainly the first time that a private collector has bought so many paintings from a single exhibition in New Zealand.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31376, 23 May 1967, Page 18
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