Provenance: Collection of the Artist's Estate

Acknowledged as New Zealand's most celebrated and accomplished painter of nudes, Evelyn Page painted no more than a dozen major works from this genre throughout her career. Of these Nude Sewing is one of her finest and is now in the collection of Te Papa.

As with all her major works, Page made many preliminary sketches and usually one final drawing which she signed.

The model for Nude Sewing was a young household help who posed before the light-filled French doors in the artist's home.