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Notable Sales

International Art Centre offers expertise and extensive market knowledge in traditional, modern, international and contemporary fine art. Regularly achieving record national & international prices for works included in auction.

Our curated Important & Rare Art auctions take place three times a year and regularly feature works by leading New Zealand and international artists.

Our signature Important & Rare Art sale include rare and unique works of art with impeccably researched provenances. Strong collector interest has seen record prices achieved for artists such as Michael Smither, Colin McCahon, Don Binney, Raymond Ching, Grahame Sydney, Jacqueline Fahey, Frances Hodgkins and C F Goldie.

In addition to our Important & Rare Art auctions, International Art Centre recently launched a new auction dedicated to Women Artists.

Taking place once a year in May, the auction Women in Art has achieved record prices for artists Star Gossage, Evelyn Page, Pauline Yearbury, Marti Friedlander, Emily Jackson, Flora Scales and Kushana Bush. The auction is designed to shine a spotlight on female artists who were often not recognised in their lifetime.

International Art Centre also holds Collectable Art and Art at Home auctions which sees strong sell through rates and excellent results achieved across all auction categories.

If you have a single work of art or a collection you are considering selling, please contact us for a complimentary appraisal.

A. Lois White
Sleeping
Oil on canvas board
60.2 x 75.5 cm
Signed
Price Realised: $72,075
Michael Smither
Chris Cricket Meets Buzzy Bee
Oil on board
74.5 x 60.5 cm
Signed & dated 1966
Price Realised: $120,125
Grahame Sydney
Brass Monkey Hill, 2003
Oil on linen
71 x 101 cm
Signed
Price Realised: $188,354
Charles Frederick Goldie
Thoughts of a Tohunga: Wharekauri Tahuna a Chieftain of the Tūhoe Tribe, 1938
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 61.2 cm
Signed & dated with brushpoint, bottom right C.F. Goldie N.Z. 1938
Price Realised: $3,759,525
Artist Record
National Record for highest price fetched at auction
Michael Smither
Saint Francis and the Wolf, 2007 - 2018
Oil and alkyd on board
120 x 100 cm
Signed & dated 2018
Price Realised: $285,540
Pauline Yearbury
The Offering
Oil on board
34.5 x 94.5 cm
Signed & dated 68 lower right
Price Realised: $37,595
Artist Record
A. Lois White
Collapse
Oil on board
75 x 60 cm
Signed & dated 1944
Price Realised: $288,300
Artist Record
Jacqueline Fahey
The Lunch Box , 1978 Drawing Room Scene with Grandma
Oil on board
84.2 x 81 cm
Signed, inscribed Drawing Room Scene with Grandma 
Price Realised: $67,270
Raymond Ching
Flotilla!
Oil on panel
98 x 114 cm
Signed & dated 1993
Price Realised: $175,848
Artist Record
Evelyn Page
Young Woman in a Bay Window
Oil on canvas on board
75 x 51.2 cm
Signed
Price Realised: $174,181
Don Binney
Swoop of the Kotare
Acrylic on Steinbach
109 x 71.5 cm
Signed & dated 1983
Price Realised: $800,000
Star Gossage
Ao Tahi, First Light
Oil and studio detritus on board
80 x 120 cm
Signed & dated 2009
Price Realised: $48,050
Artist Record
Colin McCahon
Five (Russell Finnemore & Colin McCahon)
Synthetic Polymer Paint on hardboard
60 x 59.5 cm
Inscribed RUSSELL FINNEMORE. Colin McCahon May-August ‘65 (brushpoint, b.r.); Five: / Russell Finnemore & / Colin McCahon / P.V.A. / 25gns N.F.S. (on reverse)
Price Realised: $249,860
Peter Stichbury
Savannah
Acrylic on linen 137 x 111 cm
Signed, inscribed & dated 2001 verso
Price Realised: $254,677.50
Artist Record
Don Binney
Fatbird II
Oil on board 120.5 x 62 cm
Signed & dated 1964 lower left
Price Realised: $667,012

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