On View | New Collectors Art including A Private Collection of International Photography Books

Virginia Leonard
Eating Afternoon Tea
enamel on board
1200 x 2700mm

Rare Books catalogue on view now at 3 Abbey Street, Auckland 1010

Paul Dibble

Moving Forward

cast bronze, 3/3, 1998

signed

515 x 280 x 118mm

332.

Atlas – Voyage de la corvette L’Astrolabe execute Pendant Les Annes 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829. Paris 1833.

$8000 - $9000

Interior of Brow residence.

Michael Hight
Ahuriri Pass
oil on linen canvas
title inscribed; title inscribed, signed and dated 2002 verso
607 x 1650mm

Rohan Wealleans

Boogie Woogie 'Slum Tucker' 2010

Art and Object are privileged to be handling this small but important archive of material relating to one of New Zealand’s foremost natural historians. It includes his shipboard Diary written on the voyage of the Calypso to New Zealand in 1876.

A brass microscope, built by him in Invercargill after becoming a partner of Smith & Laing, Ironmongers, in 1901. Built from parts purchased in England, together with a collection of slides.

A sketch book by John Buchanan consisting of many pencil sketches of native trees, varieties of lichen and fungus’s, natural history sketches of fish, botanical sketches of flowers, small scenic sketches, it includes original photographs of Wellington Botanical Gardens. Photograph by William Travers 1874. Image of men including J. Buchanan and James Hector assembled round the skeleton of a pygmy right whale.

Art Art+Object is delighted to announce a preliminary sale total of $4 327 516 from our August 19 auction of Important Paintings & Contemporary, easily the highest auction sale total of 2025.

Peter Peryer

Landscape, Norsewood (detail)

type C print, 2/10

title inscribed, signed and dated 2011 verso

265 x 355mm

Major J.H. Luxford- With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine. Whitcombe & Tombs 1923. Signed by the author.