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Acrylic · Paper
Art+Object · May 13, 2025NZ$1,889 ≈ $1,113 ≈ £842 ≈ €1,002Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Maxim
John Reynolds (British, 1909–1935)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate NZ$2,500 – NZ$4,000 (≈ $1,753 – $2,805) (≈ £1,314 – £2,102) (≈ €1,499 – €2,398)
Offered at Art+Object and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil and oilstick on canvas and found screenprint, diptych”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- inscribed ‘It says nothing against the ripeness of the spirit that it has a few worms’
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 355 x 560mm overall
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- All Possible Worlds - The Peter James Smith Collection (all-possible-worlds-the-peter-james-smith-collection)
- Date
- May 31, 2018
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 152
- Estimate
- NZ$2,500 – NZ$4,000 (≈ $1,753 – $2,805) (≈ £1,314 – £2,102) (≈ €1,499 – €2,398)
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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