Working drawings for Black Paintings. Zero is round, zero is black, zero is zero.

Working drawing for Black Painting by Ralph Hotere.
Reproduction permission courtesy of Ralph Hotere.

Working drawing for Black Painting.

1965

Hocken Pictorial Collections - A688 c

a5215

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 pencil: sheet 1; through image in pencil: [colour notes]; l.l. in ballpoint pen: larger.

Working drawings

585 x 460 mm

pencil & ballpoint pen on paper

Given by Ralph Hotere, Dunedin, at the end of his Frances Hodgkins Fellowship year, 1969.

Black Paintings.