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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> 7 <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 9<br />
Goldie collection to be auctioned<br />
• By Daniel Alvey<br />
PAINTINGS BY iconic<br />
artist Charles Goldie will be<br />
auctioned off by the family of<br />
late Mainfreight co-founder Neil<br />
Graham – and one could set a<br />
new record.<br />
The unique collection of<br />
Māori portraits will be sold<br />
by Auckland auction house<br />
Art+Object on March 25.<br />
The Christchurch rich-lister<br />
assembled the pieces between<br />
RECORD:<br />
Reverie, Ena<br />
te Papatahi,<br />
of Ngapuhi<br />
chieftainess<br />
Ina Te<br />
Papatahi, was<br />
painted<br />
in 1916<br />
and sold for<br />
$1.83 million<br />
last year. <br />
2005 and 2013 before he died in<br />
2015 aged 71.<br />
Goldie, who was considered<br />
the finest painter of kaumātua<br />
and people of importance, died<br />
in 1947 aged 76.<br />
One of Graham’s sons, Lincoln<br />
resident Dean Graham, shed<br />
some light on what’s happened to<br />
the paintings.<br />
“They are currently in an art<br />
storage place.”<br />
Dean said the paintings were<br />
the pride of his dad’s art collection.<br />
“He loved the Goldies . . . It<br />
wasn’t so much the value of<br />
them, it was just the matter of<br />
how amazing they were to look<br />
at.”<br />
“He had them all on a wall in<br />
his lounge between his TVs, all<br />
temperature-controlled, with art<br />
lights, and alarms.”<br />
Dean said neither he nor his<br />
brother and sister have a place<br />
to do them justice and keep the<br />
paintings protected.<br />
“At our places with kids and<br />
cats, it makes it bloody hard. So<br />
we just figured someone should<br />
enjoy them now and we can see<br />
them enjoy it and get the<br />
thrill out of owning them<br />
like dad did.”<br />
Former Robert<br />
McDougall and<br />
Christchurch Art Gallery<br />
curator and independent<br />
art valuer Neil Roberts<br />
said there is potential<br />
for the auction to break<br />
records.<br />
“Two or three million<br />
dollars (for a painting) is<br />
not unreasonable, New Zealand<br />
only in the last decade or so<br />
has started to get prices past $1<br />
million,” Roberts said.<br />
He also said because multiple<br />
pieces are going up at once,<br />
they are more likely to achieve a<br />
Dean<br />
Graham<br />
higher sales value compared to<br />
the sale of just one.<br />
Colin McCahon’s 1982 painting<br />
holds the current record for<br />
the most expensive New Zealand<br />
artwork, Is there anything of<br />
which one can say look<br />
this is new? which sold<br />
for $2.45m in September<br />
2022.<br />
Last year, one of<br />
Goldie’s most historically<br />
significant<br />
portraits Reverie, Ena<br />
te Papatahi, of the<br />
Ngāpuhi chieftainess,<br />
was repatriated to New<br />
Zealand.<br />
It was purchased<br />
by private collectors Chris and<br />
Virginia Anderson for a new<br />
world auction record for Goldie,<br />
at AU$1,718,182 (NZ$1.83m).<br />
“I started doing some research<br />
about the painting and I saw<br />
there was a bit of controversy<br />
COLLECTOR:<br />
Mainfreight<br />
co-founder<br />
Neil Graham<br />
purchased<br />
the artwork<br />
between<br />
2005 and<br />
2013. He<br />
died in 2015.<br />
about the way it’s been held out<br />
of the country to enhance its<br />
wealth to overseas collectors,<br />
so I thought it’d be a good one<br />
to bring back home,” Chris<br />
Anderson told the NZ Herald.<br />
Roberts said it is unlikely<br />
the paintings will be sold to an<br />
overseas buyer with current<br />
regulations in the Antiquities<br />
Act, which protects New Zealand<br />
artwork.<br />
“They have to make an<br />
application to actually send those<br />
paintings out of the county and<br />
if there is an objection to that<br />
they won’t go.<br />
“Because the portraits are<br />
connected with various tribes,<br />
that’s where the objection would<br />
be.”<br />
Before the paintings are<br />
sold they will be exhibited in<br />
Christchurch in March.<br />
– Additional reporting NZ<br />
Herald<br />
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