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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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The Divers
Michael Smither (New Zealand, b. 1939)
NZ$109,665 price realized incl. premium
≈ $66,269≈ £51,809≈ €60,625
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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-37)
- Date
- August 13, 2024
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 47
- 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 2023 and 2024 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Nov 21, 2023 · Art+Object
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 this result
Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, lot 47
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As catalogued
Michael Smither, “The Divers”
oil on board
1220 x 1550mm
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