35. John Walsh (b. 1954)
Pare to My Place, 2017
est. $60,000 - 80,000
Pare to My Place, 2017
Oil on unstretched canvas
156 x 308 cm
156 x 308 cm
est. $60,000 - 80,000
Fetched $50,000
Relative size
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland PAULNACHE, Gisborne
EXHIBITED
Art Central, Hong Kong, 21- 25 March 2017
The image is derived from traditional Pare, door lintel. You pass under them to enter a whare, a house or space. They would often depict an ancestral figure surrounded by aspects of cosmology. We are to negotiate the lores, laws, whakapapa, puzzles to proceed. John Walsh
