Landscape Marahau.

Landscape Marahau by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

1940

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 73/81

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17 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "The chestnut grove, Mahau Sound oil c. 14 1/2 x 20 1/2. Signed & dated Colin McCahon '44 but suggest date is wrong & should be rather earlier (ask R.E. Kennedy) A Cezanne experiment & in its way a dismal painting & one my father never liked." Actually 1941 - R.E.K. & C.McC 16.II.68 (M.G. Hitching's hand) According to Luit Bieringa this is not The chestnut grove but landscape Marahau 1940, 19 x 15 1/2" T.P.G. 1984

Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Colin McCahon ’40; verso: [title & date] Colin McCahon 24 Prestwick St Dunedin, N.W.I.; on frame: M.T. Woollaston Lyttelton Harbour.

394 x 483 mm

oil on gesso on board

Estate of Mrs E.M. McCahon, Geraldine.

John & Ethel McCahon Bequest, 1973.

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