JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 14 May 2024 - 10:00 AM start

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Eric Albert Lee-Johnson (1908-93) untitled Kelburn Rooftops,

Estimate: $300 - $600

Lot Details

watercolour, signed & dated '42 (lower right). 435 x 310mm. Note: Te Ara notes that: 'In 1940–41 he was back in Wellington free-lancing and, later, working at Ilott’s as an illustrator.' and 'From 1946 to 1948 the Lee-Johnsons again lived at Piha. Eric travelled frequently and became fascinated by its (Northland's) history and ‘frontier-type landscape’. It was rich with early New Zealand history and its derelict dwellings, abandoned churches and pa sites proved a rich storehouse of images for paintings. The family lived at Hokianga from 1948. Lee-Johnson held a major exhibition at Helen Hitchings’s gallery in Wellington in 1949. From 1950 he was editor of the Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand and had a selection of paintings reproduced in Landfall in 1952.'