SPECIAL CHRISTMAS AUCTION Estate & Collectable
Thursday, 11 - Monday, 15 December 2025
Helen Brown (1917-86) untitled aerial view - clouds over coast. Oil on board. Signed. 670 x 885mm. Private collection Red Beach,
Current Bid $800 (1 bid, reserve not met)
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Lot Details
Note: Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays in the King Country where they all specialized in the production of sombre hilly landscapes devoid of human subjects. Like Vida Steinert, Frances Hunt, Jack Crippen, Blanche Hazelwood, and others in the group, Brown’s work gradually began to display the particular brand of soft Cubism with which all Weeks students experimented as a means of achieving a more modern conception of form was practiced by painters like Ida Eise, who also taught at Elam.
