Peter Beadle New Zealand, 1933-2021
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About Peter Beadle
Born in Invercargill in 1933, Peter Beadle started off working life in the family sign-writing business, but left that in the late '60s to pursue his life-long dream of becoming a full-time artist. He eventually built a studio and art gallery at the front of their Invercargill property and when the family relocated to the Whakatipu in the mid-'90s they built a home and art gallery near Arrowtown, where he continued to paint until he was in his 80s. In the early 1970s he produced three books of his works, focusing on Manapouri, Queenstown and Fiordland, and through his company, Southwest Art, he also produced cards, calendars and limited edition prints of his paintings. Over the years he held successful exhibitions across New Zealand and in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and became recognised as one of the country's leading contemporary landscape artists, with his work represented in many prestigious collections across the world. Peter beadle was considered a master of light, his work was recognised in the 1999 New Year Honours List when he was made an Officer of the NZ Peter Beadle died in 2021.
Peter Beadle is one of the most prolific of the artists listed in our database, with the number of works offered for sale by auction since 1985 of 522, of which 443 (85%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $156,275 for Mitre Peak, Milford Sound, Fiordland sold by International Art Centre in August 2024. This year 34 works have been offered for sale.
Peter Beadle is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 17
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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