Enigmatic Puppet by Celebrated Kiwi Artist Bill Hammond

Bill Hammond, puppet, acrylic, carved wood, wire and string.…
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Bill Hammond, puppet, acrylic, carved wood, wire and string. Signed and dated 1970, length 41.5 cm, width 15 cm, diameter 5.5 cm, Hammond has become a celebrated and enigmatic exponent of what is bizarre, surreal and quirky in New Zealand Art. Appropriately, he began life as a toy-maker before taking up oil painting in 1981. A note from the vendor, 'Bill came to me in my workshop in Fitzgerald Ave and asked me to make boots for his boys. I knew bill through the Atlantis market where he sold toys and I sold boots. I made the boots for the boys and he came to collect them and handed me the doll as payment. My workers laughed and told me I'd been ripped off. He didn't have a lot of $ then but I felt sympathy for a fellow artist. It has been hanging up in my shed for over 40 years now I am hoping it will find a new home'

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