Print auction in city tomorrow

Press, 17 November 1982, Page 30

Print auction in city tomorrow

More, than 200 original prints, paintings and maps of New Zealand will go tinder the auctioneer’s hammer at. the first national print auction tomorrow. The auction, to be held in the Winter- Gardens in Armagh Street, includes prints by Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, Renoir, and Toulouse Lautrec. They have come from individuals and collections, throughout New ZealandW. E. Simes, Ltd, the company holding the auction, has published a list of estimated prices for the works oh sale. Rembrandt’s “The Great Jewish Bride,” an etching with drypoint and burin, printed in black on off-white laid paper, is estimated to

sell at between $7500 and $9OOO. Salvador Dali’s coloured lithograph, “The Great Mastabator,” is estimated at $1350 to $l6OO. Also.for sale are 50 paintings of New Zealand and English scenes. Artists include Petrus Van der Velden, Alfred Sharpe, Charles Barraud and Frances Hodgkins. Estimated values have been printed for the paintings also and the most expensive are Frances Hodgkins’ watercolour “Cobbled Street with Old Houses and Figures,” ($9OOO to $10,000), Alfred Sharpe’s unsigned watercolour “Donald McKays Bay, Auckland” ($B5OO to $10,000).

Several maps, including early attempts at./charting New Zealand, will- also be offered for sale. These date from an engraving of the French city of Poitiers in 1561. Others incline a First Plan of any United States city, an engraving of St Augustine (Florida) done in 1600, a sepia engraving of the North Pole showing California as an island 1735 and an 1844 engraving of New Zealand with insets of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper. The items will be able to be viewed at the Winter Gardens from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.’ today and from 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. The auction is at 7.30 tomorrow evening.