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Date
Collection
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For Matiu: Muriwai
, 1969
Record number
cm000206
Title
For Matiu: Muriwai
Date
1969
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
hardboard
Dimensions
600 x 601 mm (s)
Inscriptions
For MATIU CARR
/
APERIRA 16.1969.
/
Colin McCahon 16. 4. 69.
(brushpoint, b.r.)
Collection
Private collection
Extended inscriptions
EINGA ATU ANA HE TETEKURA. E ARA MAI ANA HE TETEKURA
when one generation falls
another rises.
Ours is not the death
of the moon
Exhibition history
1969 An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin McCahon
Peter McLeavey Gallery
Wellington
22/7/1969 - 9/8/1969
Notes
The texts are from chapters 24 and 27 (the latter with slight modification) of Matire Kereama's
The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North
(Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968).
The work was painted for McCahon's grandson.