Provenance: Collection of the Artist's Estate

Girl at a Coffee Bar (Bank of New Zealand collection) is one of Evelyn Page's most well loved paintings. The work is based on the Mon Marie coffee bar, an iconic Wellington meeting place from the 1960s and 70s.

The preparatory sketches were made at the coffee bar in Marjoribanks Street, but finding the models too busy and too allusive, Evelyn Page had a coffee bar set up in her living room and used friends and colleagues as models.

Study for Girl at a Coffee Bar is a completed study for the final work and features the subjects and objects Page included in the finished oil.