Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: McCahon August ’59; u.l. - c.r. with brush: God, it is all dark. The heart beat but there is no answering hark of a hearer and no-one to speak; l.r. with brush: John in Canterbury; verso: Colin McCahon No 36 August…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Married and living with his wife and young son near Nelson in 1946-48, McCahon turned from depicting landscapes to Christian imagery. By synthesizing disparate elements - portraiture, still life and symbolism (the lamp and jug) with words McCahon…
1. Title; 1785 x 1265 mm; Inscribed: John Caselberg. The Wake for Thor, Great Dane; l.r.: McCahon ’58; centre right edge: Titirangi, 1957; verso: rejected version