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Oil · Board
Art+Object · Apr 3, 2025NZ$88,951 ≈ $51,824 ≈ £39,305 ≈ €46,701Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
The Divers
Michael Smither (New Zealand, b. 1939)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate NZ$120,000 – NZ$160,000 (≈ $72,928 – $97,237) (≈ £58,133 – £77,510) (≈ €66,570 – €88,760)
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 ↓
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with artist’s initials and dated ’74
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 1220 x 1550mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-35)
- Date
- November 21, 2023
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 58
- Estimate
- NZ$120,000 – NZ$160,000 (≈ $72,928 – $97,237) (≈ £58,133 – £77,510) (≈ €66,570 – €88,760)
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2023 and 2024 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Nov 21, 2023 · Art+Object this result
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 58
Bought in / unsold · est. NZ$120,000 – NZ$160,000
As catalogued
Michael Smither, “The Divers”
oil on board
1220 x 1550mm
Aug 13, 2024 · Art+Object
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 47
Sold NZ$109,665Sign up to see
As catalogued
Michael Smither, “The Divers”
oil on board
1220 x 1550mm
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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