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Rita Angus 'Sailing on the Motueka River, Pangatotara'
Estimate:
$150,000 - $250,000
Passed
Live Auction
198 Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
ARTIST
Rita Angus
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Description
Rita Angus
Sailing on the Motueka River, Pangatotara
oil on board, 1941
inscribed verso Rita Angus, who was then known as Rita Cook, worked for me in the tobacco on my farm in Pangatotara in the summer of 1941 till Autumn, when she painted this work (on the reverse side) after a suggestion from me. This painting used to hang in “Arcadia”, the bach she lived in. It was rediscovered stored in the ceiling when we pulled the bach down in 1980. As was her want she did not sign the work... Herbert Helm, ‘Altham’, Pangatotara, December 1993.
760 x 605mm
Provenance
Private collection, Tauranga.
Purchased from Ferner Galleries.
Sailing on the Motueka River, Pangatotara
oil on board, 1941
inscribed verso Rita Angus, who was then known as Rita Cook, worked for me in the tobacco on my farm in Pangatotara in the summer of 1941 till Autumn, when she painted this work (on the reverse side) after a suggestion from me. This painting used to hang in “Arcadia”, the bach she lived in. It was rediscovered stored in the ceiling when we pulled the bach down in 1980. As was her want she did not sign the work... Herbert Helm, ‘Altham’, Pangatotara, December 1993.
760 x 605mm
Provenance
Private collection, Tauranga.
Purchased from Ferner Galleries.
Condition
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