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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Important Paintings and Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  06 Dec 2011 ~ 6.30pm (NZ Time)
• Lot #:
  74
• Lot Description:
  Colin Wheeler
  Colin Wheeler - 'McKenzie Country Homestead' Oil Colin Wheeler is one of New Zealand's most published artists with eight books illustrating
  oil on board
  600mm x 755mm
  signed C. Wheeler and dated 1976 in brushpoint lower left
• Notes:
  Colin Wheeler - 'McKenzie Country Homestead' Oil Colin Wheeler is one of New Zealand's most published artists with eight books illustrating his work. They include: 'Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand' (1968), Historic Sheep Stations of the South Island' and 'Historic Sheep Stations of the North Island', all published by A H and A W Reid. Other books include 'Kingdom of the Hills - 1930's Canterbury', 'McKenzie Roundup - More of Our Favourites' and 'Blue Cliffs' by A.E. Woodhouse. A contemporary of Peter McIntyre, both artists recorded New Zealand's rural and urban landscapes, producing visual testimony of scenes that they thought would disappear. Colin Wheeler was born in Dunedin in 1919 and was trained at the Canterbury School of Arts. In 1996, Wheeler was exhibited at Forrester Gallery, Oamaru honoured with a major retrospective, 'An Otago Odyssey - Six Decades', August - October 2011.
• Estimate:
  NZ$6,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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