Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney, NSW since 1980s

The PINE series originated from poem fragments typed onto the backs of postcards Bill Manhire sent to Hotere from London in the early 1970s. Hotere produced this series of watercolours around them in 1972, and also produced a set of images using woodblock printed letters: PINE, is arranged in series down the left-hand side of the paper with the handwritten piece of poem next to it on the right. These two examples have recently been repatriated from Australia having spent more than thirty years offshore in the same collection.