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TOSS WOOLLASTON (1910 - 98), P.O.W's at a Pottery Class, 1945
Starting Bid: $12,000
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Ended
Timed Auction
Art at Home 6 - The Hybrid Auction
ARTIST
TOSS WOOLLASTON (1910 - 98)
Size
51 x 61
Description
Oil on board
Signature
Signed & dated 1945
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
Purchased from Aberhart North Gallery, 7/3/1995
Literature
Toss Woollaston painted these New Zealand Prisoners of War in a German camp, working with a makeshift potting wheel. This work was thought to have been painted from a photograph that appeared in the NZ Herald during WWII.
