'Last' Goldie portrait sold
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What is thought to be the last portrait painted by Charles Goldie has been sold at auction for more than $400,000.
A Noble Relic of a Noble Race, an oil painting of Ngati Manawa and Tuhoe priest and chief Wharekauri Tahuna, was sold to an anonymous private buyer for $404,000 at the Dunbar Sloane fine art auction in Wellington last night.
Two other Goldie paintings of his "favourite subjects" - including Arawa chieftainess Ahinata Te Rangituatini, also known as Kapi Kapi, whom Goldie painted at least 22 times - are tipped to make their owners up to $350,000 at auction.
The paintings have been in separate family collections for 90 and 70 years respectively.
They will be sold at auction in Auckland in October.
Kapi Kapi is listed as expected to reach between $180,000 and $240,000 and a painting of Ngati Rauwaka and Arawa chief Tumai Tawhiti is listed to fetch between $250,000 and $350,000.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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