Provenance: Chunn Family Collection, Auckland

My parents spent a lot of time at Bethells Beach (Te Henga) where they had a bach close to the homestead, so of course they knew Don Binney well. All through our childhood summers he could be seen at his studio down by the duck pond, which we skirted on our route to the southern end of the beach. Binney was already one of the best-known painters in New Zealand and it took some time before they could afford to buy his works.

Geoffrey Chunn