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EVELYN PAGE - Still Life with Green Bottle, c. 1970
Starting Bid: $30,000
Estimate:
$45,000 - $65,000
Live Auction
Important & Rare Art
ARTIST
EVELYN PAGE (1899 - 1988)
Size
57.5 x 42 cm
Description
Oil on board
Condition
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Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
Acquired from Webb’s, Important New Zealand Paintings, Auckland, 10/11/1994
Acquired from Webb’s, Important New Zealand Paintings, Auckland, 10/11/1994
Literature
Evelyn Page’s life was one of extraordinary zest and independence of spirit. Qualities clearly evident in a body of work created over seven decades. The work illustrated here is a fine example of the artist’s talents and joie de vivre.
Page began her training as an artist at the Canterbury School of Art in 1915 at the time of Raymond McIntyre and Owen Merton. In spite of early formalist training she soon adopted the style her painting is so well known and loved for today; the atmospheric effects of light with freshly applied and increasingly vibrant colour, in the manner of Cézanne and Bonnard although it was not until the 1930s that she first visited Paris and saw original works by the French Post-Impressionists.
Having been heavily influenced by French masters such as Matisse and Degas, Page adapted the impressionistic language and deployed an assured deftness of brushstroke to convey rich and lively collisions of colour in her work. She developed a succinct and recognisable painted language that was uniquely her own.
Page’s affinity for finding rhythm in composition and colour gives many of her works a deep visual musicality. Throughout her long career as an artist she continued to paint in the style she developed, following her singular interpretation of visual experiences, regardless of any changes in fashion.
After the 1960s as she became increasingly interested in depicting objects from her everyday domestic life and she painted many still lifes, either reflecting her life in the orchard garden at Waikanae or interiors from her home in Hobson Street, Wellington. These paintings, luscious in surface and colour but usually simple in design, convey her joy of life and the pleasure she took in the visual beauty of nature.
Page began her training as an artist at the Canterbury School of Art in 1915 at the time of Raymond McIntyre and Owen Merton. In spite of early formalist training she soon adopted the style her painting is so well known and loved for today; the atmospheric effects of light with freshly applied and increasingly vibrant colour, in the manner of Cézanne and Bonnard although it was not until the 1930s that she first visited Paris and saw original works by the French Post-Impressionists.
Having been heavily influenced by French masters such as Matisse and Degas, Page adapted the impressionistic language and deployed an assured deftness of brushstroke to convey rich and lively collisions of colour in her work. She developed a succinct and recognisable painted language that was uniquely her own.
Page’s affinity for finding rhythm in composition and colour gives many of her works a deep visual musicality. Throughout her long career as an artist she continued to paint in the style she developed, following her singular interpretation of visual experiences, regardless of any changes in fashion.
After the 1960s as she became increasingly interested in depicting objects from her everyday domestic life and she painted many still lifes, either reflecting her life in the orchard garden at Waikanae or interiors from her home in Hobson Street, Wellington. These paintings, luscious in surface and colour but usually simple in design, convey her joy of life and the pleasure she took in the visual beauty of nature.
