The rape of Dejanira (after Michelangelo)
Colin McCahon / Bathers(oil) / 1955 (on reverse)
1963 A Retrospective Exhibition: M. T. Woollaston - Colin McCahon
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
20/5/1963 - 4/6/1963
1974 The Kim Wright Collection of New Zealand Painting
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth
5/1974 - 6/1974
2006 Colin McCahon: from the collection
Forrester Gallery
Oamaru
2006 -
2016 Colin McCahon: from the collection
Forrester Gallery
Oamaru
15/10/2016 - 11/12/2016
This painting refers to the composition of an unfinished marble frieze by Michelangelo, Battle of the Centaurs, c. 1492 (Florence, Casa Buonarotti). McCahon first became familiar with the work of Michelangelo through publications of the Phaidon Press in the late 1930s and early 1940s. (See also the related works.)