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Shimmer
Mervyn Williams (New Zealand, b. 1940)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate NZ$8,000 – NZ$14,000 (≈ $4,655 – $8,147) (≈ £3,476 – £6,083) (≈ €4,016 – €7,028)
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
- Acrylic · Paintings all acrylic results →As published: “acrylic on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Title inscribed, signed and dated 1996 verso
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 975 x 825mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-214)
- Date
- March 25, 2026
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 60
- Estimate
- NZ$8,000 – NZ$14,000 (≈ $4,655 – $8,147) (≈ £3,476 – £6,083) (≈ €4,016 – €7,028)
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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