The Wireless

Goldie

07:55 am on 22 November 2013

A Charles Frederick Goldie painting of Ngati Mahuta kaumatua, Hone Kawhena, has sold for a record auction price.

The 1892 portrait went to a private New Zealand collector for $733,000 on Wednesday night in Auckland.

It is Goldie's first painting of a Maori elder, and was the only painting he did of Kawhena.

The price beat the 1995 auction record of $704,000 for a Colin McCahon painting.