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Michael Shepherd 'Plans for a Monument...'
Estimate:
$25,000 - $35,000
Passed
Live Auction
187 Important Paintings & Contemporary Art: including the Fairfield Trust Collection, Wellington
ARTIST
Michael Shepherd
Category
Description
Michael Shepherd
Plans for a Monument: One Land-One People / Onward NZ / Building Bridges / A Great Victory! (Is in sight) / The Communication of Colonialism / Lest We Forget (Language of Colonialism)
oil on six panels
each variously signed, inscribed with title and dated ’90; original Claybrook Gallery labels affixed verso; original Dunedin Public Art Gallery labels affixed verso
450 x 600mm: each; 450 x 3600mm: overall
Illustrated
Nicholas Thomas, Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (London, 1999), p. 253.
Gregory O’Brien, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters (Godwit Publishing, 1996), p. 114.
Provenance
The Fairfield Trust Collection.
Plans for a Monument: One Land-One People / Onward NZ / Building Bridges / A Great Victory! (Is in sight) / The Communication of Colonialism / Lest We Forget (Language of Colonialism)
oil on six panels
each variously signed, inscribed with title and dated ’90; original Claybrook Gallery labels affixed verso; original Dunedin Public Art Gallery labels affixed verso
450 x 600mm: each; 450 x 3600mm: overall
Illustrated
Nicholas Thomas, Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (London, 1999), p. 253.
Gregory O’Brien, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters (Godwit Publishing, 1996), p. 114.
Provenance
The Fairfield Trust Collection.