SALE TO RAISE FUNDS

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33671, 22 October 1974, Page 12

SALE TO RAISE FUNDS

Contemporary and early New Zealand paintings valued at more than $70,000 will Ibe auctioned in Wellington on November 2 to raise funds for a new church and Sunday I school in Karori West and Makara Anglican parish. | Works by Peter Mclntyre, Austen Deans, E. B. Lattey, John Crump, Roger Harrison, | and M. A. Poulton will be I among the 250 paintings j offered for sale. ! More than 80 established and emerging artists will be represented at the auction. In addition, early paint- | ings by W. F. Barraud, P. Wouverman (1619-68). T. IFrere, and Elizabeth Forgh, as well as several nineteenthj century prints of Wellington i and Nelson scenes will be i included in the catalogue, i The auction will be held .at the Karori Community Hall, where a preview of the j paintings will be held on FriI day, November 1. ’ "The response from artists throughout New Zealand invited to submit works for sale at the auction has been overwhelming,” said the vicar of the parish (the Rev. Keith Elliott). “The organising committee has been 'very impressed by their generosity, and the enI thusiasm they have shown I for the project. I “Many other people had given their time freely in organising the auction, and there had been a splendid response from people outside the parish as well as from within,” he said. “No commercial fund raiser is involved in the project, and I should like to emphasise that our approach in organising the auction has been to invite participation from acknowledged artists of merit. We have refrained from appealing to artists to give their work. Instead, we have asked them to submit their paintings for sale on a I commission basis. “However, a number have expressed a desire to give some of their wofks, and others have placed quite nominal reserves on their paintings,” he said.