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Colin McCahon 'Marge as the Virgin Mary in the Maitai Valley'
Estimate:
$55,000 - $85,000
Sold
$127,500
Live Auction
164.1: The Collection of Adrian Burr and Peter Tatham - Vol. 1
ARTIST
Colin McCahon
Category
Description
Colin McCahon (New Zealand, 1919-1987)
Marge as the Virgin Mary in the Maitai Valley
watercolour and ink and wash on paper
signed and dated ’46
302 x 220mm
Exhibited
‘The Kim Wright Collection of New Zealand Painting’, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, May - June 1974 (touring nationally), Cat No. 27.
‘Colin McCahon: Religious Works, 1946- 1952’, Manawatu Art Gallery, March 1975, Cat No. 3.
Illustrated
Landfall (December, 1947), p. IX
Hamish Keith and Barry Lett, The Kim Wright Collection of New Zealand Painting (New Plymouth, 1974), p. 9.
Luit Bieringa, Colin McCahon: Religious Works, 1946-1952 (Manawatu, 1975), p. 40.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM000305.
Provenance
Collection of the artist.
Collection of Mr B. Cooke.
Purchased from Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.
Collection of Kim Wright, Auckland. Purchased from John Leech Gallery, 1 December 1993.
Marge as the Virgin Mary in the Maitai Valley
watercolour and ink and wash on paper
signed and dated ’46
302 x 220mm
Exhibited
‘The Kim Wright Collection of New Zealand Painting’, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, May - June 1974 (touring nationally), Cat No. 27.
‘Colin McCahon: Religious Works, 1946- 1952’, Manawatu Art Gallery, March 1975, Cat No. 3.
Illustrated
Landfall (December, 1947), p. IX
Hamish Keith and Barry Lett, The Kim Wright Collection of New Zealand Painting (New Plymouth, 1974), p. 9.
Luit Bieringa, Colin McCahon: Religious Works, 1946-1952 (Manawatu, 1975), p. 40.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM000305.
Provenance
Collection of the artist.
Collection of Mr B. Cooke.
Purchased from Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.
Collection of Kim Wright, Auckland. Purchased from John Leech Gallery, 1 December 1993.
