Ian Boustridge presents:
POUTINI
Largest & most significant Jade Sculpture mined, carved & completed in New Zealand
Poutini SCULPTURE - INVESTMENT PROFILE
• A rare & unique New Zealand Gemstone Pounamu (Nephrite Jade) Boulder – 2000C.E. mined from the remote Northern Fiordland coastline
• 3,000 hours over 5 years to create, carve and complete
• Weight: 3.5 tons
• Dimensions: 2.7m x 1.5m x 0.6m
• Artist – World acclaimed New Zealand Jade Sculptor, Ian Boustridge
• Provenance – Largest & most significant Jade Sculpture mined, carved & completed in New Zealand
• Named & authenticated by Sir Tipene O’Regan, ONZ, Rakatira Kai Tahu
• Poutini Sculpture Valuation – NZ$2,000,000+GST
POUTINI
DIMENSIONS
1.5m Wide / 2.7m Long / 0.6m Deep
WEIGHT (approx)
3.5 tons / 3,500kg / 7,840lbs
Michelangelo saw sculpture as a process of revelation, believing the form was already within the stone. He famously described sculpture as being “already complete within the marble block,” and his task was simply to reveal it. Boustridge envisioned the reptilian and mammalian forms within this massive jade boulder and liberated “Poutini” from the living rock.
Beneath and attached to the boulder, shells and crustaceans have grown and lived upon it, confirming its provenance when it was once at home in the sea on the coastline in remote Northern Fiordland.
NZ$2,000,000+GST
The rarest work of art in New Zealand.
View the full story of the stone and hear some brief musings from Ian about Poutini.