Home Magazine Design Awards 2011 Function

Coinciding with this Thursday's preview for the upcoming suite of sales is the Home Magazine announcement of the 2011 Design Awards winner held in association with Daniel Le Brun. The more the merrier so please feel free to share in the unique combination of the best 20th Century Design and Photographs with the best of 21st Century Design. Rsvp to hamish@artandobject.co.nz.

A+O makes iphone application a reality for NZ auctions

ART+OBJECT is delighted to announce that bidding will be available on smartphones (ipod, android and blackberry) for our upcoming sales of ceramics and photography. Smartphone applications are now commonplace for auction houses internationally with Christies initially leading the charge. However, this is the first time a New Zealand auction house has made the service available. If you wish to bid on the upcoming sales via your smartphone take the link below to the live auctioneers site and follow the steps.

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/iPhoneApp

Michael Seresin Collection/Important Photographs/Martin Hill Collection of Ceramics/ June 8 - June 9 Catalogue online now!

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Home Page Images

The three revolving images featured on the home page are all from the two upcoming photography auctions on June 9th, they are:

O. Winston Link (American, 1914 – 2001)
Hot Shot Eastbound, lager, West Virginia
gelatin silver print, image taken 1956 but probably printed mid 1980s
386 x 480mm
Provenance: From the collection of Michael Seresin.
$5000 - $8000

Brian Brake
Gathering Dyed Cloth on the Banks of the Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad, India, 1958
colour photograph printed from Kodak transparency on Ektacolour paper
original Dowse Art Gallery exhibition label affixed verso (catalogue no. 19), printed 1975-1976
455 x 665mm
Provenance: From the estate of Brian Brake.
$5000 - $7000

Robin Morrison
Rachael and Fanny Short, Bannockburn
vintage cibachrome print
265 x 400mm
$4000 - $6000

A+O WINS GOLD AT ANNUAL PRIDE IN PRINT AWARDS

Another gold medal (and this time not everyone got one...) for A+O at last weeks National Pride in Print awards in Wellington. We were nominated by Geon and won gold in the Promotional Print section for our 2011 catalogue featuring Selected Works from the Estate of A. Lois White.

Gravity Festival: Make Photography A Spectator Sport

As part of the New Zealand Festival of Photography, ART+OBJECT is participating in The Gravity Festival Circuit which runs between 6:00pm and 9:00pm on the evening of Tuesday 7th of June. You can be picked up and dropped off free of charge at nine photography exhibitions throughout the city including shows at Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland Art Lounge, Anna Miles Gallery, Artstation and more.

Catalogue 43 In Production - Available Online May 26th

Bill Henson, Untitled 2/1 (Paris Opera Project)

We are in production for our next catalogue which will essentially comprise of three sales: The Martin Hill Collection of Post-War Ceramics, The Michael Seresin Collection of International Black and White Photographs, and Important New Zealand and International Contemporary Photographs. The catalogue, whilst containg a number of important and world-class pots and photographs by New Zealanders, is most notable for the breadth and quality of international artworks including pieces by Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Thomas Ruff, Bill Henson, Kim Joon, Patricia Piccinini and many more. ART+OBJECT will be featuring the auction on the online auction and bidding site Live Auctioneers (http://www.liveauctioneers.com/ so if you can't make it to bid at 3 Abbey Street in real time you'll be able to bid in real time online.

Asia Surface Magazine

Check out the latest issue of Asia Surface magazine which has a nice feature on Contemporary Australasian art and an article entitled Oceanic Wave with commentary on ART+OBJECT, Michael Reid, Melanie Rogers and Jarrod Rawlins of new Melbourne venture KalimanRawlins.

Important Paintings and Contemporary Art - August 18th

Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Anooralya Yam
synthetic polymer paint on canvas (1995)
1219 x 2134 mm
$120 000 - $160 000

A+O is today delighted to have been privileged with the consignment of this very major painting by the late, great Aboriginal master Emily Kame Kngwarreye who didn't begin painting until in her 80s. Among the most sought after of the artist's works are her late works completed in the reduced palette of black and white and which take as their subject the artist's dreaming, the yam plant. The auction is scheduled for August 18th and further entries are now invited.

New Plymouth Art Appraisals

Director of Art, Ben Plumbly will be in New Plymouth next Wednesday and Thursday valuing the Govett-Brewster and Len Lye Foundation collections. He will be conducting limited appraisals and you can contact him directly at ben@artandobject.co.nz or 021 222 8183.