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Auction result
Lunch Hour Break
Garth Tapper (New Zealand, 1927–1999)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate NZ$10,000 – NZ$15,000 (≈ $7,860 – $11,790) (≈ £4,826 – £7,239) (≈ €5,432 – €8,148)
Offered at Art+Object and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
Auction history of this work: offered 2 times ↓
- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated 67; original John Leech Gallery label affixed verso
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 293 x 341mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-3)
- Date
- April 12, 2011
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 56
- Estimate
- NZ$10,000 – NZ$15,000 (≈ $7,860 – $11,790) (≈ £4,826 – £7,239) (≈ €5,432 – €8,148)
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2011 and 2013 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Catalogue details differ between appearances (dimensions). Houses often re-measure, translate or re-catalogue a work; compare the entries below.
Apr 12, 2011 · Art+Object this result
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 56
Bought in / unsold · est. NZ$10,000 – NZ$15,000
As catalogued
Garth Tapper, “Lunch Hour Break”
oil on board
293 x 341mm
Jul 2, 2013 · Art+Object
New Collectors Art, lot 38
Sold NZ$9,380Sign up to see
As catalogued
Garth Tapper, “Lunch Hour Break”
oil on board
290 x 340mm
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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