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Oil · Canvas
Deutscher and Hackett · Nov 26, 2025A$220,909 ≈ $143,533 ≈ £108,803 ≈ €123,982Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Agnus Dei
Colin McCahon (New Zealand, 1919–1987)
NZ$79,203 price realized incl. premium
≈ $46,513≈ £36,798≈ €44,188
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “watercolour and pastel on paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated 1969 in pencil lower right
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 1540 x 550mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-38)
- Date
- November 21, 2024
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 47
- Estimate
- —
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice in 2024 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Mar 27, 2024 · Art+Object
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 37
Bought in / unsold · est. NZ$85,000 – NZ$125,000
As catalogued
Colin McCahon, “Agnus Dei”
watercolour and pastel on paper
1540 x 550mm
Nov 21, 2024 · Art+Object this result
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 47
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As catalogued
Colin McCahon, “Agnus Dei”
watercolour and pastel on paper
1540 x 550mm
Appearances are linked when the photographs match and the size, medium and title agree (match confidence 88%). Casts and prints are linked only when the cast or impression number also matches. Price changes compare each sold price with the previous one (in USD at each sale’s exchange rate when the currencies differ). Details are shown as each house published them.
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