Artwork
Artwork Information
This portrait was painted in Christchurch, when Rita Angus and Leo Bensemann used to regularly sketch young men from the YMCA, around the corner from their Cambridge Terrace studio. The youth's character is immediately conveyed with Angus' acute eye for personality. The painting was specially chosen by her friend Colin McCahon for addition to the collection of this Gallery.
- Artist
- Rita Angus
- Title
- Head of a Maori boy
- Production Date
- circa 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas on plywood
- Dimensions
- 422 x 310 x 4 mm
- Credit Line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1957
- Accession No
- 1957/26
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display Status
- Not on display
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