Anzac Cove painting sells for $44,973
Published July 28th, 2006
A 1915 painting of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey stunned art experts when it sold for nearly five times its estimated value at an art auction in Auckland this week.
The postcard-sized watercolour was painted by Horace Moore-Jones, the artist who made Anzac medic John Simpson and his donkey Murphy famous, and was expected to bring between $NZ8000 and $NZ12,000 ($A6,541 to $A9,812) at an auction of New Zealand and European art in Auckland this week.
However, Richard Thomson, from the International Art Centre, said the painting exceeded all expectations when it sold for $NZ55,000 ($A44,973).
It was bought by a local man who outbid some institutions.
