John Pule Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John Pule Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 21, 2024
John Pule (b. 1962): A Song For Myself
Est: $4,000 - $8,000
Oil on canvas, 2001, signed 'John Puhiatau Pule' and dated lower right. 84 1/4 x 71 1/4 in., unframed. Note: This painting is currently rolled and does not include a stretcher.
STAIR
Jul. 27, 2023
JOHN PULE, UNTITLED 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 75 X 56CM, FRAME SIZE: 79 X 60CM
Est: $700 - $1,000
JOHN PULE, UNTITLED 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 75 X 56CM, FRAME SIZE: 79 X 60CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 27, 2023
JOHN PULE, FROM BURN MY HEAD IN HEAVEN 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 56.5 X 75CM, FRAME SIZE: 60.5...
Est: $700 - $1,000
JOHN PULE, FROM BURN MY HEAD IN HEAVEN 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 56.5 X 75CM, FRAME SIZE: 60.5 X 79.5CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 13, 2023
JOHN PULE, UNTITLED 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 75 X 56CM, FRAME SIZE: 79 X 60CM
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOHN PULE, UNTITLED 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 75 X 56CM, FRAME SIZE: 79 X 60CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 13, 2023
JOHN PULE, FROM BURN MY HEAD IN HEAVEN 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 56.5 X 75CM, FRAME SIZE: 60.5...
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOHN PULE, FROM BURN MY HEAD IN HEAVEN 1998, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER CENTRE, 56.5 X 75CM, FRAME SIZE: 60.5 X 79.5CM
Leonard Joel
May. 23, 2023
JOHN PULE, OMONUO, 2004
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOHN PULE New Zealand, born 1962 OMONUO, 2004 lithograph on paper 72.5 x 60.5 cm (sheet) 89.0 x 76.0 cm (frame) edition: 11/30 signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image PROVENANCE Private collection, Melbourne, acquired in 2007 RELATED WORK Another example of this print is held in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery | Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery This work is in excellent, stable and near original condition. The work is float mounted under Perspex. The work is hinge mounted to the support. The work has not been viewed out of its frame. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.
Deutscher and Hackett
Jun. 29, 2022
John Pule (Né en 1962) Days go by huile, vernis, encre, pastel et peinture
Est: €25,000 - €35,000
John Pule (Né en 1962) Days go by huile, vernis, encre, pastel et peinture émaillée sur toile 150 x 150 cm.
Christie's
Mar. 01, 2022
John Pule (Né en 1962) "Magaaho uha, momoko" signé et daté 'John Pule 2021
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
John Pule (Né en 1962) "Magaaho uha, momoko" signé et daté 'John Pule 2021 sept' (en bas à gauche); titré ''magaaho uha momoko'' (en bas au centre) encre sur papier 104 x 75.5 cm. Réalisé en 2021. "signed and…
Christie's
Mar. 01, 2022
John Pule (Né en 1962) Manako "signé, titré et daté 'John Pule 2021 ''Manak
Est: €15,000 - €25,000
John Pule (Né en 1962) Manako "signé, titré et daté 'John Pule 2021 ''Manako''' (en bas à droite)" "huile, vernis, encre, pastel et peinture émaillée sur toile" 100 x 101 cm. Peint en 2021. "signed, titled and…
Christie's
Mar. 01, 2022
John Pule (Né en 1962) "Your life goes on, even without my face" "signé et
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
John Pule (Né en 1962) "Your life goes on, even without my face" "signé et daté 'Oct 2021 John Pule' (en bas à gauche); titré et inscrit ''your life goes on, even without my face [...]'' (en bas au…
Christie's
Mar. 01, 2022
John Pule (Né en 1962) We stayed all day "signé, titré et daté 'J. Pule 202
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
John Pule (Né en 1962) We stayed all day "signé, titré et daté 'J. Pule 2021 ''We stayed all day''' (en bas à gauche)" "huile, vernis, encre, pastel et peinture émaillée sur toile" 150 x 150.5 cm. "Peint en…
Christie's
Sep. 06, 2021
John Pule, (b.1967), Pulenoa Triptych 1995, Lithograph ed. Artist Proof
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Pule (b.1967) Pulenoa Triptych 1995 Lithograph ed. Artist Proof Signed lower right
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Jul. 29, 2021
JOHN PULE (1962 - ) E. Tupu Noa, 1994 lithograph ed. 5/22 53 x 60 cm (frame: 77 x 83 x 3 cm) signed and dated lower right
Est: $800 - $1,200
JOHN PULE (1962 - ) E. Tupu Noa, 1994 lithograph ed. 5/22 53 x 60 cm (frame: 77 x 83 x 3 cm) signed and dated lower right
Lawsons
Jul. 28, 2021
JOHN PULE (New Zealand, born 1962) Naau 1994 woodblock ed. A/P
Est: $800 - $1,200
JOHN PULE (New Zealand, born 1962) Naau 1994 woodblock ed. A/P editioned, titled, signed and dated in pencil below image 34.5 x 52.5cm
Leonard Joel
Jun. 28, 2021
John Pule Pulenoa Trytich Lithograph Artist Proof
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
John Pule Pulenoa Trytich Lithograph Artist Proof Artist's Proof (of 22 numbered series), signed, dated 1995, framed. Acquired from the artist, 1997. Provenance Collection of a scholar who worked in PNG over several decades.
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
May. 31, 2020
John Pule and Gregory O’Brien - Maea Tino
Est: ₱26,000 - ₱33,800
signed and dated 2010 (lower right) etching, aquatint and viscosity roll 25 cm x 18 cm
Leon Gallery
May. 31, 2020
John Pule and Gregory O’Brien - Song of the Drunken Dry Land (for AR)
Est: ₱31,000 - ₱40,300
signed and dated 2010 (lower right) Relief etching 16.5 cm x 25.5 cm
Leon Gallery
Nov. 27, 2019
JOHN PULE (b. 1962) - Fek Umaika Takaia Tautui Hanga Tua
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
JOHN PULE (b. 1962) Fek Umaika Takaia Tautui Hanga Tua Lithograoh, edition 2/40, Signed, inscribed Fek Umaika Takaia Tautui Hanga Tua and dated 2004 73 x 59cm
International Art Centre
Aug. 29, 2017
John Pule (New Zealand, b. 1962)
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Tapuakiaga, 2001, oil, ink and enamel on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed l.r.c. 'John Puhiatau Pule 2001, Tapuakiaga',
Shapiro Auctioneers
Sep. 21, 2016
JOHN PULE Many times at night I sit up and watch you sleep
Est: $500 - $700
JOHN PULE Many times at night I sit up and watch you sleep lithograph,8/30 signed and dated 2002 419mm x 295mm PROVENANCE Acquired by the present owner from Gow Langsford Gallery.
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Sep. 21, 2016
JOHN PULE Sofia
Est: $500 - $700
JOHN PULE Sofia lithograph, 8/30 signed and dated 2002 419mm x 295mm PROVENANCE Acquired by the present owner from Gow Langsford Gallery.
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Apr. 30, 2014
JOHN PULE born 1962, New Zealand, TAPUAKIAGA, 2001, oil, ink and enamel on canvas
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
JOHN PULE born 1962, New Zealand, TAPUAKIAGA, 2001, oil, ink and enamel on canvas SIGNED: signed, dated and inscribed lower right: John Puhiatau Pule 2001 / TAPUAKIAGA DIMENSIONS: 200.0 x 180.0 cm EXHIBITED: John Pule: Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, 2003 PROVENANCE: Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Private collection, Brisbane ESSAY: Born in Niue in 1962 and emigrating to New Zealand at the age of two, esteemed poet and novelist John Pule first gained international recognition as an artist during the early nineties with his large unstretched canvases which, inspired by the aesthetics of traditional Niuean bark-cloth painting (hiapo), intertwine his own deeply personal experiences with contentious contemporary issues of colonialism and Christianity in the Pacific. Invariably employing a grid-like format which divided the canvas into rectangular cells, the aptly named 'hiapo paintings' featured a bewildering variety of imagery from abstract geometrical patterns to comic strip-like religious narratives and a plethora of hybrid creatures, humans and objects (some immediately recognisable, others derived from Niuean mythology or his imagination). Richly inventive and dynamic, such compositions revealed Pule as a highly original artist straddling several cultures in his underlying concerns with identity and migration, colonisation and the destruction of indigenous culture. Although strongly evocative of the Pacific however, his art was recognised as being at once more universal, more historical and more political than his Polynesian peers, akin rather to the important New Zealand artist of Maori descent, Ralph Hotere (1931 - 2013), who often engaged with international struggles from South Africa to Palestine. Extolling the searing individuality of Pule's voice, Nicholas Thomas asserts, he has 'no precedent in either traditional Polynesian art or modern Western genres'.1 At the dawn of the new millennium, Pule daringly abandoned this hiapo-grid idiom to embark instead upon the radically different 'cloud paintings', exemplified magnificently here by Tapuakiaga, 2001. His most celebrated achievement to date, the series invariably features surreal cloudscapes where rust red (or green) clouds of variable size, number and distribution, are surmounted by miniscule black-ink drawings detailing a proliferation of figures and forms: as Garrett elaborates, 'hybrid bird-like lizards, botanical motifs, birds, the Christian cross, Pacific church buildings, aeroplanes, broken aeroplanes mounted by two-headed monsters, ambulances, decapitated heads, fantastical creatures breathing fire, skulls, sex acts, island silhouettes ...'2 Indeed, in a manner reminiscent of the heterogeneous visions of Netherlandish proto-surrealist Hieronymus Bosch, many of the characters between and atop clouds are dismembered and calamities seem to be unfolding everywhere. Often linking the clouds are huge precarious ladders and falling tendrils of the ti mata alea (Cordyline tree), believed in Niuean culture to be the plant from which human life evolved. Symbolising the origins of his people, the flowering vines also bear strong personal significance for Pule whose family brought native Niuean plants with them to New Zealand to establish in the soil of their new home - an attempt to find anchorage that resonates throughout his art. Although mourning a loss of cultural identity both for himself and the wider Pacific community, such works resist any overt postcolonial statement. Rather Pule's allusions to the dislocation and pain caused by migration and amalgamation with Western beliefs and society are always subtle and executed with ironic control; as David Eggleton elucidates, 'His paintings are miniature museums of ethnology ... Now and again, there is rupture and erasure, rubbing, smearing, blotting, but all done with delicacy and finesse.'3 Similarly, that Pule constructs his bloody skyscapes from the view of aeroplanes - sites and instruments of global terror since 11 September 2001 - suggests a meditation upon this new era of international conflict and violence. Yet as elsewhere within his oeuvre, such condemnation of humanity's capacity for meaningless abuse is inevitably counterbalanced by a sense of optimism and insistence upon empathy; as the artist poignantly muses, 'I chose clouds and the sky because they feature so powerfully in the Bible. The sky is second only to the sea as a place that fills my imagination with awe. I see this space as a sort of backdrop to a place that is ideal, you know, a place that is full of metaphors for social change.'4 1. Thomas, N., Possessions, Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999 2. Garrett, R., 'Walking with Letters: Michael Parekowhai, John Reynolds, John Pule,' Artlink, vol. 27, no.1, 2007, pp. 46-49 3. Eggleton, D., 'John Pule and the Psychic Territory of Polynesia', Art New Zealand, 2001, p. 65 4. Pule cited in Durrant, J., 'Odes of a Restless Spirit: John Pule', Art Asia Pacific, vol. 67, March/April 2010, pp. 86-91 VERONICA ANGELATOS
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 26, 2013
John Pule Star signed and dated 2000 370mm x 495mm
Est: $600 - $1,000
John Pule Star signed and dated 2000 370mm x 495mm
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Feb. 19, 2012
JOHN PULE Self Portrait Etching edition of 10
Est: -
JOHN PULE Self Portrait Etching edition of 10 Signed, inscribed & dated 1999
International Art Centre
Aug. 17, 2011
Art Work by: John Pule
Est: -
Art Work by: John Pule - Self Portrait
International Art Centre
Mar. 29, 2011
John Pule
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
John Pule, Restless Spirit, title inscribed, signed and dated 2000
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Nov. 30, 2010
John Pule Nofo La Koe oil on unstretched canvas
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
John Pule Nofo La Koe oil on unstretched canvas title inscribed, signed and dated 1999 verso
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Nov. 25, 2010
John Pule Taketake mo e Vaka 1800 x 1300mm
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
John Pule Taketake mo e Vaka 1800 x 1300mm
ART+OBJECT
Aug. 26, 2010
Naau; artwork by John Pule
Est: -
Naau; artwork by John Pule
International Art Centre
Aug. 26, 2010
Perturbed Visitor; artwork by John Pule
Est: -
Perturbed Visitor; artwork by John Pule
International Art Centre
Aug. 26, 2010
Lenonga Kia Koe; artwork by John Pule
Est: -
Lenonga Kia Koe; artwork by John Pule
International Art Centre
Jun. 24, 2010
John Pule Mahina lithograph, 34/40 title
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
John Pule Mahina lithograph, 34/40 title inscribed, signed and dated 2004 760 x 605mm
ART+OBJECT
Jun. 24, 2010
John Pule Fenonga Kia Koe lithograph, 71/100 title
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
John Pule Fenonga Kia Koe lithograph, 71/100 title inscribed, signed and dated 2002 760 x 570mm
ART+OBJECT
Mar. 30, 2010
John Pule Maholo title inscribed and signed verso
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
John Pule Maholo title inscribed and signed verso 2010mm x 1700mm
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Mar. 25, 2010
John Pule What I May Need oil on canvas title
Est: $38,000 - $50,000
John Pule What I May Need oil on canvas title inscribed, signed and dated 1999 verso 2470 x 1825mm
ART+OBJECT
Mar. 25, 2010
John Pule Taketake mo e Vaka oil on unstretched
Est: $28,000 - $40,000
John Pule Taketake mo e Vaka oil on unstretched canvas 1800 x 1300mm
ART+OBJECT
May. 12, 2009
John Pule Transcontinental title inscribed, signed
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
John Pule Transcontinental title inscribed, signed and dated 2008 455mm x 505mm
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Apr. 02, 2009
John Pule Taulani oil on unstretched canvas title
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
John Pule Taulani oil on unstretched canvas title inscribed, signed and dated 2003 2020 x 1815mm Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland
ART+OBJECT
Apr. 02, 2009
John Pule I Had a Mind as Invisible as Light, My
Est: $45,000 - $65,000
John Pule I Had a Mind as Invisible as Light, My Hands Spent One Day as an Angel and for Thirty Five Years I Had Hair as Wonderful as the Sun oil and ink on canvas title inscribed, signed and dated 2001 and variously inscribed 2000 x 1800mm Provenance: Private collection, Auckland
ART+OBJECT
Nov. 01, 2008
John Pule Let's Gather Here title inscribed and
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Pule Let's Gather Here title inscribed and signed 720mm x 610mm
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Nov. 01, 2008
John Pule I Watch You Sing That Lifts My Own Voice
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
John Pule I Watch You Sing That Lifts My Own Voice to Sing with You signed and dated 2001 760mm x 570mm
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Oct. 22, 2008
John Pule From the Bond of Time title inscribed,
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
John Pule From the Bond of Time title inscribed, signed and dated 2004 760mm x 560mm
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May. 24, 2008
John Pule Angelu lithograph 16/30 title inscribed,
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
John Pule Angelu lithograph 16/30 title inscribed, signed and dated '97 755mm x 565mm
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Feb. 19, 2008
John Pule Lalonga ne tala atu e au ke nga tangi
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
John Pule Lalonga ne tala atu e au ke nga tangi woodcut printer's proof title inscribed, signed and dated '94 300 x 530mm
Webb’s – Specialist Auctioneers
Feb. 19, 2008
John Pule Tapu noa lithograph 18/22 title
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
John Pule Tapu noa lithograph 18/22 title inscribed, signed and dated '94 and inscribed RI 530 x 600mm
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Dec. 04, 2007
John Pule E Fenonga e koe haau lithograph, 29/34
Est: $3,500 - $5,500
John Pule E Fenonga e koe haau lithograph, 29/34 title inscribed, signed and dated 1999 925mm x 710mm
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Oct. 16, 2007
John Pule Mamakava woodcut printer's proof title
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
John Pule Mamakava woodcut printer's proof title inscribed signed and dated '94 530mm x 750mm
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Oct. 16, 2007
John Pule Vevetena lithograph, printer's proof
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
John Pule Vevetena lithograph, printer's proof title inscribed signed and dated '94 530mm x 750mm Incorporating both lithography and woodcut techniques, these prints of John Pule's continue his familiar themes of the effects of colonisation on traditional myth and storytelling. His rapid style of drawing often incorporating text and poetry, is ideal for the medium of print making. John Pule is represented by Gow Langsford, Auckland and Jonathan Smart, Christchurch. EF
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