Lot 81: Douglas Badcock 1922-2009-Lonnekers, Stewart

Douglas Badcock 1922-2009-Lonnekers, Stewart Island Oil on board 39.0x56.0 Signed Insribed & dated 1968 verso Provenance: Artist's Estate Collection Born in Balclutha 1922 Douglas Badcock had a highly successful professional art career Preferring to paint en plein-air, mostly in oil, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Zealand's leading landscape painters His paintings are included in the Queen of England's collection and King of Thailand's collection Douglas was a Kelliher Art Award winner and several books have been published on his work He came second in the 1959 Kelliher Art Award and third in the 1962 award Badcock held his first exhibition in Wellington in 1960, selling out within two days A review at the time described him as 'a realistic painter and absolutely sincere with a natural talent and a high technical standard .. A master of the New Zealand landscape, he paints New Zealand as he sees it' He produced at least three publications: My Kind Of Country then later My Kind of ainting and A Painter in Fiji In a Listener article in 2004, Mr Badcock said: I paint seas, skies, mountains I paint the world I know, as it appears to me I have an image that is there and I have to record it When I'm painting I let the subject reveal itself Picasso said I don't seek, I find And finding is a revelation-intellectually, emotionally, spiritually The primary motivation is self-expression, but if there's no vision, if we don't see beauty in nature any more, then we're nowhere