Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947) - Pokai (The Strategist) 1921
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1921.
10.4 x 8.7 inches, 26.5 x 22 cm. Estimate: Aus$300,000-400,000.
Sold Sotheby’s, Sydney, 16 May 2018 for Aus$366,000 incl B.P.
Note the huia feathers in his hair indicating high status.
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Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947) - Memories. Wiripine Ninia, a Ngatiawa chieftainess
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1920. Note the huia feathers in her hair.
10.6 x 8.6 inches, 27 x 21.5 cm Estimate: £40,000-60,000.
Sold Christie’s, London, 15 Dec 2016 for £131,000.
Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947) - Ka pai te kai paipa, portrait of Te Hei, a Maori chieftainess
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1941.
16 x 20 inches, 40.5 x 51 cm. Estimate: £50,000-80,000.
Sold Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 24 Nov 2016 for £203,000 incl B.P.
Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947) - After a hundred years, Kapi Kapi (an Arawa chieftainess), aged 102 years
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1918.
9.5 x 7.5 inches, 24.2 x 19.1 cm. Estimate: NZ$180,000-260,000.
To be sold International Art Centre, Auckland, 14 Aug 2018.
Ahinata Te Rangituatini, also known as Kapi Kapi,
of Rotorua (c1800-1902) was one of Goldie’s
favourite sitters and he painted her at least
twenty two times. She was an Arawa chieftainess,
a member of the Tuhourangi tribe living at
Whakarewarewa.
Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1949) - Reverie, Ena te Papatahi, a Ngapuhi chieftainess (Ina te Papatahi, Ngapuhi)
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1916.
18 x 16 inches, 45.7 x 40.7 cm. Estimate: £200,000-300,000.
Sold Christie’s, London, 24 Sept 2015 for £386,000.
Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900) - Te Retimana Te Rurapoutu
Albumen photograph. Taken c.1880′s
Pulman is regarded as New Zealand’s first professional female photographer. Note the now extinct huia’s feathers in his hair.
Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900) - Menehira Whatiwatihoe
Albumen photograph, trimmed. Taken c.1880′s.
Pulman is regarded as New Zealand’s first professional female photographer. Note the now extinct huia’s feathers in his hair.
Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900) - Wetani Rore Tatangi
Albumen photograph. Taken c.1880′s
Pulman is regarded as New Zealand’s first professional female photographer. Note the now extinct huia’s feathers in his hair.
Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900) - Mahi Poki, Orakei
Albumen photograph. Taken c.1880′s
Pulman is regarded as New Zealand’s first professional female photographer. Note the now extinct huia’s feather in his hair.
The following fourteen photographs were all sold separately at Trevanion & Dean Auctions in February 2016. Together they made £18,000.
Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900) - Te Retimana Te Rurapoutu
Albumen photograph. Taken c.1880′s
Pulman is regarded as New Zealand’s first professional female photographer. Note the now extinct huia’s feathers in his hair.
Maurice Paris (1903-1969) - Ramasseurs de goémon dans la baie
Oil on cardboard. 7.5 x 9.4 inches, 19 x 24 cm.
Estimate: €400-600.
To be sold Bayeux Enchères, Bayeux, France, 19 May 2024.
You can see Mont-Saint-Michel in the background. ‘Ramasseurs de goémon’ are seaweed gatherers. Up until the 1950s, thousands of wagonloads of seaweed were harvested on the French coast each year to extract the potassium within for use in the glass and soap industries and for the manufacture of gunpowder.