What is Douglas MacDiarmid?
[[File:Douglas_MacDiarmid.jpg|thumb|Douglas MacDiarmid]] '''Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid''' (14 November 1922 – August 26, 2020) was a New Zealand painter. He was known for his diversity and use of colour, and involved with key movements in twentieth-century art.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Douglas MacDiarmid – Jonathan Grant Gallery|url = http://jgg.co.nz/artists/douglas-macdiarmid/|website = Jonathan Grant Gallery|access-date = 5 February 2016}}</ref> He was born in [[Taihape, New Zealand|Taihape]], [[New Zealand]]. MacDiarmid painted the portraits of [[Rita Angus]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5464|title=Rita Cook [Rita Angus]. · ourheritage.ac.nz {{!}} OUR Heritage|website=otago.ourheritage.ac.nz|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-18}}</ref> and [[Theodorus Johannes Schoon|Theo Schoon]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/76-19|title=Portrait of Theo Schoon|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=2018-08-18}}</ref> among others. In 2016, two of his paintings sold through Art+Object for a record price (for the artist) of more than $27,000 each as part of the Tim and Sherrah Francis Collection, the highest grossing art auction in New Zealand history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artandobject.co.nz/auction/106.1/the-tim-and-sherrah-francis-collection|title=Art+Object|website=artandobject.co.nz|access-date=22 February 2017|archive-date=23 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223044319/http://www.artandobject.co.nz/auction/106.1/the-tim-and-sherrah-francis-collection|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDiarmid, Douglas}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:New Zealand painters]] {{bio-stub}}