Goldie Oil Painting Tipped To Bring Up To $600,000

An oil painting of a well-known poet and song writer in Maoridom by Charles Goldie, one of New Zealand’s most revered artists, is predicted to bring up to $600,000 at an art auction in Auckland this week.

Memories Rakapa, an Arawa Chieftainess, which was painted in 1910, is in a catalogue of Important and Rare Art being offered by the International Art Centre and is in its original C F Goldie frame. It is one of several of her by Goldie and is one of a number of paintings by some of New Zealand’s best artists included in the sale at the International Art Centre in Parnell this week (Wednesday, August 3).

Goldie, who died in 1947, is considered in art circles as one of the finest painters of Maori art in New Zealand and earlier this year, another Goldie painting, Te Hau-Takiru Wharepapa sold for a record price of $1.885 million at a similar sale of Important and Rare Art at the International Art Centre.

International Art Centre director Richard Thomson, said Goldie’s work is revered and there are very few who can match his artistic skill.

“He can bring out the emotion and the personality of his subjects like no other artist and that is recognised by his many fans who cannot get enough. Every time a Goldie work becomes available for sale, it is extremely well received and popular.”

The International Art Centre has been selling Goldie art for 50 years including some of the best work he has done and many sell for record prices.

The sale also included many works from the Elizabeth Steiner Collection by other fine and very popular New Zealand artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Rita Angus, Evelyn Page, Gottfried Lindauer, Gretchen Albrecht, Colin McCahon and Peter McIntyre.

This week’s sale will be the first which is open to the public after they were restricted to online sales nearly two years ago because of Covid restrictions on crowds.

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