Record price for Goldie
PA Auckland Australian interest in a recent auction forced a NewZealand buyer, Mr Grahame Chote, to pay a record $25,000 for a Goldie painting. The figure is the highest auction price paid for an early New Zealand portrait. “I wasn’t going to let anyone else buy that painting. I have a reputation to keep." said-Mr Chote. who owns a Parnell art gallery. Mr Chote held the previous record for the most expensive early New. Zealand portrait bought by auction, also a Goldie. He paid $lB,OOO in 1976 for "Te Aho o te Rangi Wharepu."
Mr Chote said he had been prepared to pay even more for the painting. A representative of the auctioneer. Mr Brian Groshinski. said the high price refl<-.■ •( the scarcity of importan -<>|v New Zealand works . g on to the market. The painti ci - xicts an old Maori wom.->. smoking a pipe and is caned; “Nikorima with Nicotina." It was first sold in 1910 for £3B 10s. The record, for any New Zealand painting sold by auction is held by a modern painting by Rita Angus which sold for $31,000 in 1980.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19821025.2.44
Bibliographic details
Press, 25 October 1982, Page 6
Word Count
189Record price for Goldie Press, 25 October 1982, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.