The Collection of John and Sheana Gellert

Frank Hofmann, Composition with Cactus
gelatin silver print, 4/10
title inscribed, signed and dated 1950
490 x 390mm

Live Auction including photographic works by
Murray Hedwig, Frank Hoffman, Anne Noble, Peter Peryer, Geoffrey Short, Richard Wotton

Art & Object
3 Abbey Street, Newton, Auckland

17th June 2025, 6:00pm

Viewing:

Wednesday 11th June 09:00 - 17:00

Thursday 12th June 09:00 - 17:00

Friday 13th June 09:00 - 17:00

Geoffrey Short, Untitled No. 12: Newton, Auckland
cibachrome photograph
title inscribed, signed and dated 1985 and inscribed from ‘Looking for Godot’, at Real Pictures Gallery, August 1985 verso
283 x 285mm

Saturday 14th June 11:00 - 16:00

Sunday 15th June 11:00 - 16:00

Monday 16th June 09:00 - 05:00

Tuesday 17th June 09:00 - 13:00

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With its genesis in Petar Vuletic's internationalist, abstraction-focussed Petar/James Gallery in the 1970s, the Gellert Collection features major examples by artists from the gallery including Richard Killeen, Gordon Walters, Milan Mrkusich and Ian Scott.

Continuing to acquire throughout the eighties, nineties and 2000s, the Gellert collection is a significant Auckland collection which remains at the cutting edge of Contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand practice over nearly half a century.