Tony Fomison

New Zealander | 1939 - 1990

Tony Fomison was a New Zealander Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1939. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki . Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland City have featured Tony Fomison's work in the past.Tony Fomison's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 110 USD to 1,091,597 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,091,597 USD for The Fugitive, sold at Webb's in 2022. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 9,351 USD.Tony Fomison has been featured in articles for and . The most recent article is written for New Zealand Herald in November 2020. The artist died in 1990.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Watcher on the Shore ,1982

By Tony Fomison

+134%

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Head and Spirits

By Tony Fomison

Attributed to Corregio - Napkin of St Veronica - Tony Fomison

Attributed to Corregio - Napkin of St Veronica ,1976

By Tony Fomison

+39%

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Recent Auction Results

The Question ,8

By Tony Fomison

+60%

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Untitled No. 136 ,1976

By Tony Fomison

-12%

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Beethoven's Fidelio ,86

By Tony Fomison

+24%

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Current Exhibitions

Lovers & Castaways

Pataka Art + Museum

Porirua | New Zealand

Mar 29,2025 - Jul 06,2025

Threads Of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland | New Zealand

Sep 02,2023 - Aug 02,2026

Past Exhibitions

Spring Catalogue 2024

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland City

Auckland | New Zealand

Sep 25,2024 - Oct 19,2024

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Articles

New Zealand Herald 23/11/2020

The art auction at Webb's in Auckland tonight, which included an extremely rare piece by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, left the company's head of art Charles Ninow buzzing.

New Zealand Herald 23/11/2020

The art auction at Webb's in Auckland tonight, which included an extremely rare piece by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, left the company's head of art Charles Ninow buzzing.

New Zealand Herald 15/08/2018

Monsters and dinosaurs will be bringing art to life for kids at Te Papa this Saturday as the museum reveals its newest art exhibition. Children will

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鈥� .. Fomison (1939-1990), like his paintings, is said to have had an intensity and presence that is somewhat difficult to define... 鈥�
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street

鈥� ..Fomison鈥檚 canvases are often characterised as dark, brooding or foreboding and are thought to offer a personal representation of the human condition and its inherent fragility... 鈥�
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street

鈥� ..Students workshopped the theme of 鈥榦therness鈥� in Fomison鈥檚 work, which helped shape our creative approach... 鈥�
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Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa

鈥� ..Reflected in his works in a lifetime spent of observation and documentation of his immediate environments, here, Grace鈥檚 photographs offer a kind of counter observation of the artist himself... 鈥�
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street

鈥� ..Accompanying entries from her dairy recall a personal experience of the often elusive artist... 鈥�
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street

Tony Fomison

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