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Theo Schoon 'One Man’s Picture is Another Man’s Rorschach Test'
Estimate:
$70,000 - $90,000
Passed
Live Auction
162: Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
ARTIST
Theo Schoon
Category
Description
Theo Schoon
One Man’s Picture is Another Man’s Rorschach Test
polyvinyl acetate on board
signed; title inscribed, signed and dated 1964 and inscribed New Vision Gallery, 8 H. M Arcade, Queen St verso; inscribed Cat No. 5 on original Auckland City Art Gallery ‘New Zealand Painting: 1965’ exhibition label affixed verso
1455 x 1200mm
Exhibited
‘Theo Schoon’, New Vision Gallery, Auckland, 1965.
‘New Zealand Painting: 1965’, Auckland City Art Gallery, 17 April - 1 May 1966, Cat No. 60.
‘Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism’, Lopdell House, Auckland, 11 October – 9 November 1997.
Illustrated
Damian Skinner, Theo Schoon (Massey University Press, 2018), p. 193.
Hamish Keith, New Zealand Painting: 1965 (Auckland, 1965), p. 11.
Amanda Garland and Damian Skinner, Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism (Auckland, 1997), p. 39.
Literature
Damian Skinner, Theo Schoon (Massey University Press, 2018), pp. 187 - 188, 194.
Damian Skinner, ‘Madness, Modernism and Primitivism’ in ibid.
Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism (Auckland, 1997), pp. 19 - 25.
Provenance
Collection of Mr David Vaver. Acquired by him from New Vision Gallery.
Private collection, Auckland.
Purchased by the current owner from International Art Centre, Auckland in 1987, Lot No. 26.
One Man’s Picture is Another Man’s Rorschach Test
polyvinyl acetate on board
signed; title inscribed, signed and dated 1964 and inscribed New Vision Gallery, 8 H. M Arcade, Queen St verso; inscribed Cat No. 5 on original Auckland City Art Gallery ‘New Zealand Painting: 1965’ exhibition label affixed verso
1455 x 1200mm
Exhibited
‘Theo Schoon’, New Vision Gallery, Auckland, 1965.
‘New Zealand Painting: 1965’, Auckland City Art Gallery, 17 April - 1 May 1966, Cat No. 60.
‘Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism’, Lopdell House, Auckland, 11 October – 9 November 1997.
Illustrated
Damian Skinner, Theo Schoon (Massey University Press, 2018), p. 193.
Hamish Keith, New Zealand Painting: 1965 (Auckland, 1965), p. 11.
Amanda Garland and Damian Skinner, Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism (Auckland, 1997), p. 39.
Literature
Damian Skinner, Theo Schoon (Massey University Press, 2018), pp. 187 - 188, 194.
Damian Skinner, ‘Madness, Modernism and Primitivism’ in ibid.
Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism (Auckland, 1997), pp. 19 - 25.
Provenance
Collection of Mr David Vaver. Acquired by him from New Vision Gallery.
Private collection, Auckland.
Purchased by the current owner from International Art Centre, Auckland in 1987, Lot No. 26.
