Artist offers work to New Zealand
PA New Plymouth. The New Zealand-born international artist, Len Lye, has offered his personal collection of sculpture, films, paintings, batik, and notes to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. The gallery would become the custodian of the most comprehnsive collection of the work of Lye, who is 76. A conditional agreement has been reached between Lye, the gallery director (Mr R. O’Reilly) and the chairman of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (Mr Hamish Keith). The project now depends on financial su-
port from the Government; the New Plymouth City Concil cannot meet the cost of examining and cataloguing the work in the United States. Mr J. Matthews, of New Plymouth, who discussed the matter with Lye two years ago in New York, said that Lye had been approached by a number of American art institutions to buy his collection but he felt an obligation to New Zealand, where he spent his youth. If New Plymouth cannot accept the collection, Lye says he will offer it to the National Art Gallery, Wellington, on the same con’ ditions.
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Press, 27 August 1977, Page 23
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