45. Michael Smither (b. 1939)
Pukekura Park with Rotunda, 1967
est. $190,000 - 230,000
Pukekura Park with Rotunda, 1967
Oil on board
91.5 x 103 cm
Signed & dated 1967
91.5 x 103 cm
est. $190,000 - 230,000
Fetched $160,000
Relative size
PROVENANCE
Collection of Barry Hopkins Art Trust/Visual Arts
EXHIBITED
John Leech Gallery, Auckland, 1968, cat no. 30
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1 November - 16 December 1984
ILLUSTRATED
Michael Smither, an introduction, (Govett- Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth) p.74
Trish Gribben, Michael Smither Painter, (Ron Sang Publications, Auckland, 1990) p.55
My Grandfather, Ninian Duncan, took me for pram rides in Pukekura Park to feed the ducks. Big black swans used to reach right into the pram and terrify and delight me all at once. At the Gables I lived right beside Pukekura Park and made many paintings of these lakes - Michael Smither
