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Squid on a Plate
Michael Smither (New Zealand, b. 1939)
NZ$42,043 price realized incl. premium
≈ $26,992≈ £20,994≈ €24,493
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with artist’s initials M. D. S and dated ’87
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 810 x 923mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-25)
- Date
- November 26, 2019
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 69
- Estimate
- —
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2018 and 2019 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Nov 29, 2018 · Art+Object
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 68
Bought in / unsold · est. NZ$50,000 – NZ$70,000
As catalogued
Michael Smither, “Squid on a Plate”
oil on board
810 x 923mm
Nov 26, 2019 · Art+Object this result
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 69
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As catalogued
Michael Smither, “Squid on a Plate”
oil on board
810 x 923mm
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