The King of the Jews, 1947

Record number
cm001036
Title

The King of the Jews

Date
1947
Medium
oil
Support
cardboard on hardboard
Dimensions
635 x 520 mm
Inscriptions

McCahon / 47 (brushpoint, t.l.);

Credit line
bequest of Ron O'Reilly, 1982
Accession number
1982-0065-1
Extended inscriptions

This is / Jesus the / King of / the Jews (u.r.)

Exhibition history

1947 [Colin McCahon]
Modern Books Ltd.
Dunedin
7/1947 - 8/1947

1947 The Group Show - Retrospective Edition
Old Art Gallery
Christchurch
3/11/1947 - 13/11/1947

1948 Colin McCahon: Exhibition of Paintings
Wellington Public Library
Wellington
2/2/1948 - 21/2/1948

1949 McCahon and Woollaston
Helen Hitchings Gallery
Wellington
30/7/1949 - 5/8/1949

1959 Eight New Zealand Painters III
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
1959 - 1959

1963 A Retrospective Exhibition: M. T. Woollaston - Colin McCahon
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
20/5/1963 - 4/6/1963

1969 Colin McCahon: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours from the Collection of R. N. O'Reilly
Peter McLeavey Gallery
Wellington
18/8/1969 - 29/8/1969

1970 Exhibition lent by R. N. O'Reilly
Victoria University Library
Wellington
10/8/1970 - 6/9/1970

1975 McCahon 'Religious' Works 1946-1952
Manawatu Art Gallery
Palmerston North
3/1975 - 3/1975

1981 Stations of the Cross
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth
11/3/1981 - 20/4/1981

1983 Colin McCahon: The Mystical Landscape
National Art Gallery
Wellington
12/12/1983 - 21/1/1984

1984 I will need words: Colin McCahon's Word and Number Paintings
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
Sydney
11/4/1984 - 17/6/1984

1999 Toi Toi Toi: Drei Kunstlergenerationen aux Nueseeland
Museum Fridericianum
Kassel
23/1/1999 - 5/4/1999

2002 Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
30/8/2002 - 10/11/2002

2013 New Visions, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington
29/3/2013 -

2019 TÅ«rangawaewae: Art in New Zealand: Colin McCahon
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington
8/2019 -