International Art Centre

16. John Weeks - Dwellings cut into Hillside, Morocco Pencil on paper 29.0 x 42.0 Signed more info... John Weeks 1886 - 1965 Weeks was an influential artist, both as a painter and as a teacher in the New Zealand art scene in the 1930s until the 1960s. He was born in Devonshire, England and came to New Zealand at an early age. Weeks studied at Elam School of Fine Arts from 1908 to 1911. He was an extensive traveller, spending time in England, Australia, Europe and North Africa, studying at the Edinburgh College of Arts and Andre L'Hote's Academy in Paris before returning to teach at Elam in 1929.

2. James Cook - Carte De La Nle Zealand Map NZ From French Cook Ist Voyage Lithograph 50.0 x 39.0 more info... An important map of New Zealand showing track of Cooks' Endeavour with relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings. The map is taken from the first French edition of Hawkesworth's description of Cook's first voyage titled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis et le capitaine Cook dans les vaisseaux "le Dauphin ", "le Swallow" and "l'Endeavour".

5. Simon Kaan - Untitled - From Workers Bed Series Oil on two wooden panels 176.0 x 188.0 Signed & dated 2004 - 05 more info... Exhibited: Oil on Workers' Beds, Webb's 2006 This work was completed whilst the artist was on his Creative New Zealand funded residency in Beijing. Our thanks to Simon Kaan for his assistance in cataloguing this work

1. Peter Siddell 1935 - 2011 - Harbour Oil on canvas 35.5 x 25.2 Signed. Inscribed verso more info... Provenance: Purchased by current owner from Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland circa 1994 Sir Peter Siddell paintings breathe the suburbs of Auckland. Siddell was born in Auckland in 1935 and attended Mount Albert Grammar. He initially worked as an electrician and then a teacher but after his 1972 sellout solo exhibition at Moller's Gallery in Auckland he took up painting full time. He has gone on to become one of New Zealand's most admired painters with works in most public and corporate collections. In 1978 he won the Air New Zealand Travel Award and the Benson & Hedges Supplementary Art Award. In 1991 Siddell received a Queens Service Order (QSO). He was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art in 2008, an honour that was redesignated as Knight Companion of the Oder in 2009. A 290 page book 'The Art of Peter Siddell' by Peter Siddell was recently published. Siddell passed away in October 2011 in Auckland

15. Colin McCahon - Canterbury Plains Conté crayon on paper 19.8 x 25.4 Signed, inscribed & dated 1948 more info... Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland Colin McCahon database no. cm000481 Exhibited: An Exhibition of Paintings from July 1947 to August 1948 by Colin McCahon, Dunedin Public Library Hall, September 1948