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Northland triptych: To know it is to love it.
Part 3 of a 3-part work.
Northland triptych: O New Zealand, why does nobody love you.
Part 2 of a 3-part work.
Northland triptych: Oh God, God, I know what you want.
Part 1 of a 3-part work.
Rosegarden V.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: C.McC. 74. Rosegarden - V.
Waterfall.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: McCahon Dec 64.
Kauri
Lower right (l.r.) in pen & ink: McCahon ’59 April. Kauri
Triangles.
Upper right (u.r.) in capitals: McCahon Jan ’65.
Towards Auckland 6.
Lower left (l.l.): [title]; l.r.: McCahon Jan 54
The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
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…
Little kauri tree.
Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’57; verso: [title]
Abstract: print no. 4.
G.H. Brown writes: McCahon described this work to me as 'a sort of Gate', & laughingly said that the title could be Abstract: Gate, but whether that is accurate enough to use as a generic title for the complete set, to which this work belongs, seems…
Sketch for Window.
McCahon felt that the design was: 'a bit too easy'. McCahon gave this sketch to Brown when helping him in his Crummer Road studio during 1979.
Black Painting XII from “Malady”, a poem by Bill Manhire.
Verso upper left (u.l.) with brush: Black Painting XII from “Malady”, a poem by Bill Manhire. Hotere, Dunedin 70.
Working drawings.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Working drawings. Hotere
[Working drawings for Black Paintings. Colour chart].
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Hotere: u.l.-l.r. in pencil: green purple blue red orangy yellow red yellow orange green blue violet purple too cramped [numerals].
Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere; through image in pencil: [numerals]; verso in ink: [unfinished sketch].
Drawing for Black Painting. R O Y G B I V.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for Black Painting Hotere 68; u.r. in ballpoint pen: R O Y G B I V [repeated].
[Working drawing for Black Painting].
Upper left (u.l.) in ballpoint pen, crossed out in red fibre tipped pen: Vin dolorossa XIV; through image in pencil: [colour notes].
Drawing for Black Painting.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for Black Painting. Hotere … [illeg]17-4-64; l.r. vertically in red fibre tipped pen: Too complex.
Working drawings for Black Paintings. Zero is round, zero is black, zero is zero.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’65; l.c. in pencil: Drawings for black paintings. Zero is round, zero is black, zero is zero; u.c. in pencil: too small - zero is round; l.l. in pencil: crap; l.l. in…
Working drawings for Black Paintings. All is black and there is no black (Suzuki).
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’69; C. in red fibre tipped pen: delete; l.c. in red fibre tipped pen: All is black and there is no black? (Suzuki).
Black painting. Violet/red VII.
Verso: [title] Hotere ’69 Brolite lacquer on board 48” x 24” 5.
Black window. 7/10.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 7/10 Black Window Hotere Elam 84; watermark: Arches France.
Drawing for painted glass.
Margin beside image r. in pencil: Drawing for painted glass R.H. 5-73; on image: Introibo ad altare Dei Dominus vobiscum [colour notes].