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The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate Collection — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:413
Sale Title:The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate CollectionLots with images:296
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:320
Date:25-Oct-2012
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Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach, Tate Gallery Publishing. Signed by Len Castle; Janet Mansfield Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand. Craftsman House 1995. Signed by Len Castle; Helen Schamroth 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Godwit Press 1998. Signed by Len Castle.
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T. Barrow, 3 volumes, all inscribed to Len Castle by Terence Barrow, an Illustrated Guide to Maori Art. University of Hawaii Press 1984; The Decorative Arts of the New Zealand Maori. Reed 1964; Art of Polynesia. Hemmeter Pub Corp 1990. Also by T. Barrow Art and Life on Polynesia. Reed 1972.
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Brian Brake, James McNeish, D. Simmons, Art of the Pacific, Wellington: Oxford Univ Press 1979. Signed by Len Castle; Te Maori. Maori art from the New Zealand Collections. Heinemann 1984. Signed by Len Castle.
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Leach Bernard [intro], The Living Treasures of Japan, kodansha 1973. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1974; Herbert H. Sanders The World of Japanese Ceramics. Kodansha 1967. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1968; Painted Buddhas of Xinjiang. The British Museum Press; Selected Treasures of The National Museum of Korea. Samhwa Pub Co 1973. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1974; Ryoji Kuroda Shino. Kodansha 1984; Art of the Far East. Batsford, Iris Colour Book. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1955.
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Joseph Grebanier, Chinese Stoneware Glazes, ln: Pitman 1975. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1976; Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain. National Palace Museum, in slipcase. Signed Len Castle; Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware. National Palace Museum. Signed by Len Castle.
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Andy Goldsworthy, London: Viking Press 1990. Signed Len Caste; Peter Selz Sam Francis. New York: Harry Abrams 1982. Signed Len Castle; James Ross Painting from the Gibbs Collection 2 volumes. New Zealand Modernism – The Content of Form and Expressionism and Figuration.
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Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, Art and the Century of Change. British Broadcasting Corporation 1980, 1st edition. Signed Len Castle. Leni Riefenstahl – People of Kau. London: Collins 1977 reprint.
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Jack Troy, Salt Glazed Ceramics, London: Pitman 1977. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1978; Edmund de Waal Ceramics, Design Source Book. London: New Holland 1999. Signed Len Castle; Henry Varnum Poor A Book of Pottery. From Mud Into Immortality. London: Pitman 1959. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1961; J.C. Schofield Materials for the New Zealand Potter. New Zealand Geological Survey 1977.
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Two boxes of assorted books from the Len Castle library.
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Series of 10 Japanese traditional pottery folios with colour plates, all signed by Len Castle. Text in Japanese and three with a single page of handwritten notations. Potters include Hamada, Hagi pottery and Arakawa.
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New Zealand Potter – 7 issues 1959 – 1983, catalogue, helen Mason Commitment to Clay. Hastings City Art Gallery; Barry Brickell A New Zealand Potter’s Dictionary. Reed Methuen 1985.
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Len Castle, Catalogue Making the Molecules Dance, a Retrospective Exhibition 1947-1994, notebook titled in pen on front cover. Len Castles Mixtures.
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Bundle of pottery books
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