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Gallery ’delighted’ Hotere auction can go ahead

Updated - 9/3/2010 - nzherald.co.nz.

The art gallery which planned to auction 60 works by iconic Dunedin artist Ralph Hotere is "delighted" some of the works will go on sale after a dispute between the artist and vendor was settled last month.

The planned auction at Auckland’s Art + Object gallery was cancelled just before it was to take place in September last year, after Hotere took a court case against vendor Annette Asher, formerly Ferguson.

The planned court action was understood to concern ownership, or the terms on which the works were "gifted to his friend and colleague", Ms Asher in 1968.

A settlement was brokered between the two parties in private in the High Court at Wellington last month, but court rules say the settlement terms cannot be disclosed.

Gallery director Ben Plumbly said he was "absolutely delighted" that 23 of the disputed works could now be auctioned on March 25.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10630927

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