PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland Purchased from One-Man Exhibition at John Leech Gallery, November 1964 by the current owners Original label affixed verso

EXHIBITED
One-Man Exhibition at The John Leech Gallery, November 1964 Original label affixed verso

ILLUSTRATED
plate 27, Peter McIntyre's New Zealand A H & A W Reed 1966 I know this pair well and often speak to them outside the Kakahi village store. They grin in that shy Maori way, but always in the dreaming eyes there is an "unfathomable enigma" as Gauguin called it, and you will see that same look in the faces in a Gauguin painting.

Plate 27 Peter McIntyre's New Zealand, Peter McIntyre, A H & A W Reed Ltd, 1972 In Kakahi much of what makes life worth living has been preserved: it's countryside has retained some of the beauty that made New Zealand unique. I know every pool on it's miles of river, every track in it's surrounding bush. It has been my escape and hideout from an ever more strident and ugly world, my refuge from the inane persecution of the telephone. It has restored my faith in this world as a place to live in and has bought to me like heapedup riches, the beauty of the bush and rivers of my country, New Zealand, for Kakahi is New Zealand. Text: Kakaki, New Zealand, Peter McIntyre, A H & A W Reed, 1972