RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
John Ioane (1962-) 'Please',
Realised: $1,000 plus premium
Lot Details
Medium: shellac/dye/Oregon pine on metal stand Origin/Date: New Zealand, 1998 250 x 35 x 10cm Cat. Note/Ref.: RDB observed that 'Ioane's attitude to sculptural process is cosmological - his carvings bind present reality with a representation of the past. For him, carving is nature's transformative energy revelling in its own fecundity.' Ron Brownson, 'Ioane Ioane', in Ron Brown et al., Home AKL: artists of Pacific heritage in Auckland (Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2012), p. 43.
