4
Charles Frederick Goldie '‘A Midsummer’s Day’, Maoriland: Pōkai - A Warrior Chieftain of the Ngāti Maru Tribe'
Estimate:
$850,000 - $1,350,000
Sold
$750,000
Live Auction
194 Six Paintings by Charles Frederick Goldie (1870 – 1947) from The Collection of Neil Graham ONZM (1943 – 2015)
ARTIST
Charles Frederick Goldie
Description
Charles Frederick Goldie
‘A Midsummer’s Day’, Maoriland: Pōkai - A Warrior Chieftain of the Ngāti Maru Tribe
oil on canvas on board
signed and dated 1937 in brushpoint upper right; title inscribed and inscribed Cat No. I on artist’s original catalogue label affixed verso; original Royal Academy exhibition (1943) labels affixed verso; original Société des artistes francais blindstamp applied verso; inscribed on original receipt addressed to Speight and dated 15/7/47: Pokai purchased - feel sure you will approve, regards Charles affixed verso
400 x 452mm
Exhibited
Salon of the Société des artistes francais, Paris, 1938.
‘C. F Goldie’, John Leech Galleries, Auckland, 1948.
Reference
Alister Taylor and Jan Glen, C.F Goldie: His Life and Painting Martinborough, 1977), p. 277.
Literature: The Evening Post, November 30, 1937.
New Zealand Herald, May 9, 1939.
C. F Goldie, Scrapbooks (Auckland Museum).
C.F Goldie, Scrapbooks (National Art Gallery).
Provenance
Collection of Hugh Speight, of the Speight’s Brewery family, Dunedin. Purchased on 15 July 1947 for £345. Thence by descent.
Purchased from Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, November 30 2011, Lot No. 40.
‘A Midsummer’s Day’, Maoriland: Pōkai - A Warrior Chieftain of the Ngāti Maru Tribe
oil on canvas on board
signed and dated 1937 in brushpoint upper right; title inscribed and inscribed Cat No. I on artist’s original catalogue label affixed verso; original Royal Academy exhibition (1943) labels affixed verso; original Société des artistes francais blindstamp applied verso; inscribed on original receipt addressed to Speight and dated 15/7/47: Pokai purchased - feel sure you will approve, regards Charles affixed verso
400 x 452mm
Exhibited
Salon of the Société des artistes francais, Paris, 1938.
‘C. F Goldie’, John Leech Galleries, Auckland, 1948.
Reference
Alister Taylor and Jan Glen, C.F Goldie: His Life and Painting Martinborough, 1977), p. 277.
Literature: The Evening Post, November 30, 1937.
New Zealand Herald, May 9, 1939.
C. F Goldie, Scrapbooks (Auckland Museum).
C.F Goldie, Scrapbooks (National Art Gallery).
Provenance
Collection of Hugh Speight, of the Speight’s Brewery family, Dunedin. Purchased on 15 July 1947 for £345. Thence by descent.
Purchased from Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, November 30 2011, Lot No. 40.
