With record sales of just over $4.65 million, the Les and Milly Paris Collection set a new auction benchmark in New Zealand's art market. The highest price paid at the ART+OBJECT auction was for Gordon Walters'
Painting No.7 (1965), which sold for $433,000, and a raft of record prices were set for artists including Philip Clairmont, Michael Illingworth, Peter Robinson, Michael Smither, Charles Tole and Robin White. You can see a complete list of the results
here.
Image: Gordon Walters' Painting No. 7 (1965), purchased by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
