Billy Apple, Wairepo Swamp Walk

Billy Apple

New Zealand · 1935–2021 · Painter, Printmaker

Billy Apple was a New Zealand artist whose work is associated with the London, Auckland and New York schools of pop art in the 1960s and NY's Conceptual Art movement in the… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Billy Apple, Sold, acrylic on canvasSoldArt+Object · NZ$58,625≈ $49,655≈ £29,493≈ €37,145Sign up to see
  2. Billy Apple, Rainbow with Waterfall, plexiglass and acrylic, 1965Rainbow with WaterfallArt+Object · NZ$47,906≈ $36,109≈ £17,497≈ €24,350Sign up to see
  3. Billy Apple, Tales of Gold (Gold Standard), enamel on gold passivated steel, 7 panels (1988)Tales of Gold (Gold Standard)Art+Object · NZ$38,440≈ $25,562≈ £19,619≈ €21,690Sign up to see

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Billy Apple was a New Zealand artist whose work is associated with the London, Auckland and New York schools of pop art in the 1960s and NY's Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He worked alongside artists like Andy Warhol and David Hockney before opening the second of the seven New York Not-for-Profit spaces in 1969. His work is held in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Gallery of Australia, Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the University of Auckland, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Belgium.

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Born 1935, AucklandDied 2021, AucklandOccupation Painter, Printmaker, SculptorWikidata Q4912115 ↗ULAN 500103154 ↗Museum works 2

In the collections of

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum representation from open data (Wikidata, museum collection datasets); links go to the museum or its collection record.

pop art

Also known as Barrie Bates, Barrie George Bates

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Billy Apple, Wairepo Swamp Walk
Wairepo Swamp Walk2011
Wikimedia Commons ↗
CC BY 4.0 · Prosperosity, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Billy Apple, Monkey Hill Steps
Monkey Hill Steps2008
Auckland Council Art Collection ↗
CC BY 4.0 · Prosperosity, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) — Auckland Council Art Collec…

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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