THE LES AND MILLY PARIS COLLECTION - PART 2 2012-09-20 Auction - 163 Price Results - Art + Object in nz - Page 7
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THE LES AND MILLY PARIS COLLECTION - PART 2

Les and Milly Paris began their legendary New Zealand art collection soon after they were married in 1963 when they acquired a portrait of a Maori Boy by Peter McIntyre, a purchase that Les later confessed to having lied about as it was so seemingly beyond their means, claiming instead that it was a gift from grateful clients. From these inauspicious beginnings the Paris?s went on to build one of the largest, most finely nuanced and well-provenanced private art collections in Australasia. By the time Jim Barr interviewed Les and Milly in early 1977 for Art New Zealand the collection included major works by Milan Mrkusich, Geoff Thornley, Michael Smither, Colin McCahon, Don Binney, Allen Maddox, Don Driver, Brent Wong and Gordon Walters. The Paris collection grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s when photography became a focus, particularly the work of Peter Peryer, Marie Shannon, Gavin Hipkins, Les Cleveland and Fiona Pardington. In 1992 the Paris Collection was the subject of an exhibition at the Wellington City Art Gallery entitled Hit Parade: Contemporary Art from the Paris Family Collection. The cover of the catalogue shows Les and Milly in their sitting room surrounded by three decades of collecting. Works by Walters, Richard Killeen, Thornley, Ralph Hotere, Driver, Smither, Mrkusich, Julian Dashper and Theo Schoon adorn the walls, salon-style from floor to ceiling. In every room important works by our leading artists were displayed. A tour of their Wellington home at this time was quite literally a survey of New Zealand art. The collection continued to be added to well into the Twenty First Century with works by Ronnie van Hout, Shane Cotton, Michael Stevenson, Stephen Bram and Seraphine Pick adding a vital contemporary voice to the collection.
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Graham Bennett, Glazed Box and Rectangle: mixed media construction, 1982 435 x 442mm Provenance Purchased from Louise Beale Gallery, March 1983.Exhibited: 'Graham Bennett', Louise Beale Gallery, 28 February 1983 - 11 March 1983.
0217: Graham Bennett, Glazed Box and RectangleEst. NZ$600-NZ$900
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Don Driver, At the Beach: colour lithograph, a/p (unframed) title inscribed, signed and dated '82 590 x 440mm
0219: Don Driver, At the BeachEst. NZ$400-NZ$800
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Juliet Peters, Cane chair I: linocut, 4/24 590 x 440mm
0220: Juliet Peters, Cane chair IEst. NZ$300-NZ$600
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Seven vintage exhibition posters: including Ian Scott (2), Toss Woollaston, Robert Rauschenberg, Kitaj etc. (Petar/James Gallery), Milan Mrkusich, Ron Left and Nigel Brown
0221: Seven vintage exhibition postersEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Eight vintage exhibition posters: including Janet Paul, Richard Killeen, Milan Mrkusich, Hand-Made Paper Works (City Gallery), Toss Woollaston, Michael Smither, Tony Fomison, Big Green (Dowse Art Museum)
0222: Eight vintage exhibition postersEst. NZ$60-NZ$120
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Assorted New Zealand artists' biographies,: exhibition brochures and art publications including Auckland City Art Gallery exhibition catalogues 1976, 1977 and 1982.
0225: Assorted New Zealand artists' biographies,Est. NZ$100-NZ$200
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Thirty assorted international art books: Many by Phaidon and Thames and Hudson, including volumes on Fauvism, David Hockney, the pre-Raphaelites, Eroticism in Western Art, Baroque and Roccoco art, etc.
0226: Thirty assorted international art booksEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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13 international art publications: including large monographs and volumes on Wyndham Lewis, Diane Arbus, Arthur Boyd, Abstract Art Since 1945, etc.
0227: 13 international art publicationsEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Assortment of auction catalogues: and dealer gallery publications and magazines
0228: Assortment of auction cataloguesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Assortment of auction catalogues: and dealer gallery publications and magazines
0229: Assortment of auction cataloguesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Assortment of auction catalogues: and dealer gallery publications and magazines
0230: Assortment of auction cataloguesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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A box of New Yorker magazines: A box of New Yorker magazines
0231: A box of New Yorker magazinesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Five boxes of American Art magazines: Five boxes of American Art magazines
0232: Five boxes of American Art magazinesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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Three boxes of International Art magazines: Three boxes of International Art magazines
0233: Three boxes of International Art magazinesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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A box of Landfall magazines: and Ascent Journal of the Arts in New Zealand
0234: A box of Landfall magazinesEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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A box of mixed arts publications: A box of mixed arts publications
0235: A box of mixed arts publicationsEst. NZ$50-NZ$100
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