PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Auckland Purchased from Fine New Zealand Paintings, Jewellery & Decorative Arts, Webb's, 06 April 2005

Painted in 1969 which was a watershed year for Ralph Hotere. He was awarded the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago, which led to his permanent move to Dunedin and Port Chalmers.

This period remains at the cutting-edge of minimal geometric abstraction painting produced in New Zealand and equally, foreground conversations about the interplay between Maori aesthetics and consciousness and European cultural ideals and art practices.