Provenance: Private collection, Marlborough Purchased in 1982 by the vendor's parents

Illustrated: p. 69 Leo Bensemann Landscapes & Studies Caroline Otto, Nikau Press 2004

Exhibited: Retrospective Exhibition,
Rue Pompallier Gallery, Akaroa, 1972 Cat. no 30

'In his landscapes Mr Bensemann strips away the irrelevant, he selects forms and isolates features that give the landscape of Takaka…a character essential to the location, and he combines this with a very personal and expressive selection of colour that is a register of his own mood and response to the land. His Takaka paintings, for example, painted as they are with heavy greens, greys and clacks are full of dark foreboding' Exhibition Review in Christchurch Press, 1972