Binney's Flight of the Kokako has sold for a record price of more than $500,000. Photo/Supplied
Binney's Flight of the Kokako has sold for a record price of more than $500,000. Photo/Supplied
A Don Binney painting has sold for more than half a million dollars at auction this evening, making it the most expensive Binney work ever sold.
The large piece - La Chute d'Icare, Pureora: Last Flight of the Kokako - was valued at between $300,000 and $500,000.
It sold for$455,000, or $534,625 including a buyer's premium of 17.5 per cent.
It is part of the Warwick and Kitty Brown collection of modern art, with all 300 pieces being auctioned this evening and tomorrow through Mossgreen-Webb's.
Binney - who died in 2012 - was famed for his paintings of birds.
The 1979 oil painting of a kokako in flight was painted as a fundraiser for an environmental group, in response to concerns about logging threats to the bird's habitat.
Renowned NZ artist Don Binney at a 2004 Auckland Art Gallery exhibit of his work. Binney died in 2012. Photo/NZHerald
As well as the Binney work the auction included artworks by Colin McCahon, Tony Fomison, Pat Hanly and Ian Scott.
Nearly 100 lots sold this evening at a total of more than $2,200,000.
