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