Overview
To date these include Frances Hodgkins' Refugee
Children (c1916), the Gallery's first Picasso painting,
Verre et pichet (1944) and Michael Parekowhai's Story
of a New Zealand River.
Image credit: Michael
Parekowhai, The Story of a New Zealand River, 2001, paua,
capiz, lacquer and wood on a concert grand piano, The Auckland
Triennial Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, on loan
from the Thanksgiving Foundation, 2001