Presented in original C F Goldie black Kauri frame

Mere Werohia was Chieftainess of the Ngati te Rori te Rangi Hapu of the Ngatiwhakane Tribe, Rotorua

Provenance:
First purchased at John Leech Gallery, Auckland 1949
Acquired by present family, George Walker Auction Auckland, 9 September 1963
On the market for the first time since then

Illustrated:
New Zealand Herald 11 September 1963
Auckland Star 12 September 1963
p. 283 C F Goldie: His Life & Painting and C F Goldie: Prints, Drawings & Criticism, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, 1979

Reference:
With assistance from C F Goldie: His Life & Painting and C F Goldie: Prints, Drawings & Criticism, Alister Taylor & Jan Glen, 1979

Time Tells was painted in 1938, three years after Goldie was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. Soon after, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to art in New Zealand in the 1935 King's Birthday and Silver Jubilee Honours.

In Polynesian portraiture Mr C F Goldie stands pre-eminent in the world today, and New Zealand has every reason to be proud of him. Governor General Lord Bledisloe