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Auction result
The Poet Explodes
Michael Illingworth (New Zealand, 1932–1988)
NZ$30,485 price realized incl. premium
≈ $25,214≈ £15,566≈ €19,393
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with artist's initials M. H. I and dated '61
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 510 x 763mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- The Les and Milly Paris Collection (the-les-and-milly-paris-collection)
- Date
- September 19, 2012
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 54
- Estimate
- —
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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