Rex Nan Kivell, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British/New Zealand art collector
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1898
Date of Death: 07-Jun-1977
Profession: art collector
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Rex Nan Kivell
- Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell CMG (born Reginald Nankivell, 8 April 1898 – 7 June 1977) was a New Zealand-born British art collector, who was knighted on the recommendation of the government of Australia, a country he never visited, for the gift and sale to the National Library of Australia of his collection of books, paintings, prints, documents, manuscripts and artefacts relating to the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
- He has been described as "an archetypal outsider – illegitimate, homosexual, self-educated and antipodean".
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