New Zealand Photographer Peter Peryer Gelatin Silver Photo Print Anne Noble 1979

  

For sale is a beautiful portrait photograph by the highly regarded New Zealand photographer Peter Peryer. Provenance: From the Estate of Marcuse "Cusie" Pfeifer; James Cox Gallery At Woodstock New York.

Marcuse Pfeifer was an American gallerist. Pfeifer was an important figure in recognition of photography as a fine art, She opened the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery on Madison Avenue in 1976,' and later moved to 568 Broadway. The woman posing in this exceptional photo is the noted New Zealand photographer and Distinguished Professor of Fine Art, Anne Noble 1954. Inscribed on the mounting in pencil (see pics).

Condition: In overall good condition. Measurements: 10 3/8" x 15 1/4" (photo size). Peter Chanel Peryer ONZM (19411 - 2018) was a New Zealand photographer. In 2000, he was one of the five inaugural laureates of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Born in Ötahuhu, Auckland, on 2 November 1941, Peryer completed a Master of Arts in education at the University of Auckland in 1972, and lectured in English at Auckland Teachers' College. He began photographing in 1973, and was largely self-taught. His work was included in The Active Eye, the first survey of contemporary New Zealand photography, mounted by the Manawatu Art Gallery in 1975. Peryer held his first solo exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum in 1977; this was the first solo exhibition of a contemporary photographer at a New Zealand public art gallery. His work has been extensively exhibited in public and private art galleries throughout New Zealand and internationally, in solo exhibition and group shows. In 1995 an exhibition of Peryer's work titled Second Nature: Peter Peryer Photographs toured New Zealand and Germany. One of the works used to advertise the exhibition in Europe was Dead Steer (1987), which depicts the bloated carcass of a cow on a rural roadside. New Zealand's then Minister of Agriculture John Falloon protested the inclusion and use of the work, on the basis that it was bad publicity for the New Zealand meat industry. He attempted unsuccessfully to have the exhibition closed and ordered the New Zealand High Commissioner to withdraw from attending an opening of the exhibition. In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Peryer was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to photography.

In 2000, he was among the five artists recognised by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand as their inaugural Laureates. Peryer died in New Plymouth on 18 November 2018.