Art

Our Art Auctions

Our Art Department offers four auction categories:
Works of Art, Select, Art to Date, and Art Online.


  • Works of Art     is our premiere live art auction. This catalogue showcases a curated selection of museum quality artworks by New Zealand’s most celebrated artists as well as works by notable international practitioners.


  • Select: This live art auction presents strong examples of collectible work by significant artists that have been hand-picked by our team of specialists.


  • Art to Date: This online auction offers a wide range of artworks spanning all mediums, from historic to very contemporary. The Art to Date sale is a great way to build upon or start a collection with works available at a variety of price-points.

  • Art Online: Online auctions which present a selection of small prints, works on paper, photography and paintings at very affordable prices.

Upcoming Online Auction

Select
10—24 February

We are now seeking entries for our next Select auction, taking place online from 10 February, 2025.

Select is one of our most hotly anticipated auction series, with in-the-know collectors gravitating toward the sales due to their diverse offerings and propensity for unique works. Representing both on-the-ascent and well-established New Zealand artists, the catalogue is carefully curated by our specialist team based on trends that they have been tracking across the market.

Our last Select auction saw fantastic results achieved for works by Gretchen Albrecht, Star Gossage, Allen Maddox, Pauline Yearbury, and more.

If you have a work you believe would be perfect for Select, please get in touch with our specialists today for an obligation-free appraisal.

Stephanie AuYeung
Manager, Art

Lot 39. Robin White, Paremata Landscape, 1970, oil on canvas, 745 x 1220mm (overall)

EST. $300,000 - $360,000
PRICE REALISED $342,790

Recent Live Auction

Works of Art
Monday 25 November, 6.30pm

With the year drawing to a close we are pleased to report that our final Works of Art auction for 2024 has seen us out with some fantastic results.

Headlining the catalogue was Robin White's beautiful and bittersweet Paremata Landscape; the large-scale, two-panel painting depicting the once-bush-clad hills surrounding the Paremata Inlet as they were being cleared to make way for housing. The work reached a price realised of $342,790 and we congratulate the buyer on securing an important example of White’s early regionalist style.

Further highlights came from two of Aotearoa's leading contemporary practitioners: Fiona Pardington and Lisa Reihana. Pardington's electric Pihipihi, Hunter achieved $53,775, while Reihana's Cook's Transit of Venus (12520/13065) sold for $35,850. The strength of these results underscore the increasing and deserved market interest in the perspectives of wāhine Māori artists.

Other standout results include Taramakau, by Toss Woollaston ($76,516), Pat Hanly's Bride, Mask & Groom ($42,849), Tony Fomison's Untitled #142 (Self portrait outside a cave in Kaikoura) ( $36,728), and Bill Hammond's The New Love Logos ($75,000), resulting in a sale total of 1.2 million dollars.

We are very excited for what 2025 will bring, starting with our first Works of Art auction for the year, taking place on Monday 24 March. If you have a significant work you are thinking of bringing to the secondary market we would love to speak with you.

Tasha Jenkins
Head of Art

Mark Hutchins-Pond
Senior Specialist, Art

Sean Duxfield
Specialist, Art

Lot 33. Fiona Pardington, Pihipihi, Hunter, 2022 inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 3/10, 1120 x 1090mm

EST. $45,000 - $70,000
PRICE REALISED $55,091

Upcoming Online Auction

Art Online
16 - 22 January

We are currently seeking consignments for our upcoming Art Online auction.

These popular sales present a brilliant selection of artworks by contemporary, modern, and historical artists at reasonable prices. With hundreds works to choose from, Art Online is an excellent collecting opportunity for emerging and established collectors.

Notable artists previously featured in Art Online include Karl Maughan, Séraphine Pick, Michael Smither, Stanley Palmer, Robin Morrison, and Max Gimblett. A feature of the auction also is its showcasing of younger, up-and-coming names, and we welcome works by emerging artists such as Billie Culy, Morgan Haines, Fiona Connor, and others.

If you have a work you are thinking of bringing to market, please contact our team for a complimentary appraisal.  

Stephanie AuYeung
Manager, Art

Colin McCahon, Clouds 3, 1975 (2024), screenprint on 640gsm Hahnemühle cold pressed paper, edition of 100, 1035 × 700mm.
PRICE $12,000+GST (unframed)

A limited edition opportunity—
The Colin McCahon Legacy Project

Introducing a limited-edition reproduction of one of McCahon's artworks, crafted to support the Colin McCahon Legacy Project, an interactive digital platform that will showcase the artist’s remarkable life and works. In partnership with Webb’s, the Project has made these prints available for purchase — giving supporters a chance to own a piece of McCahon’s legacy, while contributing to the preservation of his work.

Read more about the Colin McCahon legacy project and Webb’s long and illustrious history with Colin McCahon on our website article here.

For expressions of interest please contact our specialist team. The work can be viewed in our Auckland and Wellington Galleries.

 

Stephanie AuYeung
Manager, Art
stephanie@webbs.co.nz
+64 22 301 8259

The Art Department

Webb’s Art Department offers excellence in expertise and service. We are always interested in discussing your artworks or wider collection and what we can do for you.

Our specialist team are able to provide market-based information for those wishing to consign or seeking acquisition advice, no-obligation appraisals, and valuations for market and insurance purposes. The department offer a number of live and online Art auctions throughout the year. Our auctions feature a range of artworks from museum-quality investment paintings to more affordable works tailored to new collectors.

Please contact our Art department to discuss any works in our upcoming Art auctions or to learn more about the benefits of selling at auction.

Tasha Jenkins

Head of Art


  • Tasha is our Head of Art. She has a proven track record of consigning, valuations, and client relationships. Alongside five strong years at Webb’s, her experience within the arts sector includes work in institutional galleries and with prominent art events.

    At Webb’s she plays an instrumental role in coordinating and implementing art consignments and auctions, leading the art team members and problem solving to achieve the company’s goals. She holds postgraduate qualifications in Fine Arts and Cultural & Creative Studies.

Mark Hutchins-Pond

Senior Specialist, Art


  • Mark Hutchins-Pond is our Senior Art Specialist based in Wellington. He has extensive art sector expertise from over three decades of working with and writing about art in Aotearoa.

    Mark’s previous appointments include leading the Pātaka Art+Museum curatorial team and successfully running his own dealer gallery for nine years. He has written for and edited various art publications and is a respected speaker of our country’s most exceptional art.

Sean Duxfield

Specialist, Art


  • Sean has over three decades’ experience within the arts sector in a wide range of roles.

    He has honed his technical and leadership skills at organisations such as the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the Dowse Art Museum and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and developed significant experience in his own private capacity.

    Sean’s long association with the Venice Biennale — providing exhibition support services to participants in both art and architecture disciplines — resulted in him receiving a President’s Award from the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 2018. Sean is also co-chair of the Canterbury Society of the Arts/CoCA board in Christchurch and a Trustee of the Bill and Pip Culbert Trust.

    Through these roles, he has developed an invaluable understanding of the arts ecosystem of the South Island as well as its wider importance and significant investment potential nationally.

Georgina Brett

Specialist, Art


  • Georgina Brett brings to the role of Art Specialist, a broad wealth of experience and knowledge from working in a range of positions within the arts sector. Prior to working for Webb’s Georgina Brett was the Exhibitions Production Manager for Artspace Aotearoa for four years.

    Georgina, is a sound and visual artist, she holds an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating she has exhibited both locally and internationally.

    Much of her knowledge of New Zealand art, she credits with the fact that many of the artists whose artwork passes through Webb’s, are artists who either studied alongside, or were tutored by her father, Graeme Brett, during his time at Elam.

Our Auckland based art team. Pictured left-to-right: Tasha Jenkins, Stephanie AuYeung, Jo Bragg, Hannah Owen, Georgina Brett, and Georgia Clapshaw.