52. Rita Angus (1908 - 70)
Lake Wanaka, Pembroke
Watercolour
22.3 x 26.5 cm
Signed Rita Cook & dated 1939
est. $90,000 - 130,000
Fetched $150,000
Relative Size: Lake Wanaka, Pembroke
Relative size

PROVENANCE Private Collection, Auckland since, c. 1989

EXHIBITED The Group: Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings, Etc Durham Street Art Gallery, The Society of Arts, Christchurch. Christchurch, 20/9/1940 - 26/9/1940

In 1939 Rita Angus spent four months staying in Wanaka with her friends Marjorie and William Marshall. Marjorie Marshall was a fellow painter, friend and former student who had met Angus at art school. Her husband William was the teacher at the local Wanaka school. During the visit, William would drive the two women out on weekend painting expeditions into the surrounding countryside.

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