Flagship piece, Vive Aramoana (pictured), sells for $183,000.

Pieces for next month's auction include Vive Aramoana, which fetched a record price in 2002.

The New Zealand opera singer’s 1998 Sir Peter Siddell oil of Mt Eden village was bought by a private buyer, who paid more than double the previous record for a Siddell painting sold at auction.

A painting owned by opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is expected to fetch more than $160,000 in an international art auction this month.