You are witnesses
AUGUST '59. McCahon (brushpoint, b.l.-b.r.); COLIN McCAHON NO. 34. / YOU ARE WITNESSES / AUG '59 / BUTEX / 15gns (on reverse)
HE IS / RISEN / you / are / witnesses / of these / things / HE IS / RISEN / FROM THE / DEAD
1959 Colin McCahon. Recent Paintings, November 1958 - August 1959
Gallery 91
Christchurch
6/10/1959 - 18/10/1959
1969 McCahon's McCahon's 1943-1963
Moller's Gallery
Auckland
10/3/1969 - 28/3/1969
1972 Colin McCahon: A Survey Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
7/3/1972 - 23/4/1972
1988 Colin McCahon: Gates and Journeys
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
11/11/1988 - 26/2/1989
2002 Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
30/8/2002 - 10/11/2002
The Biblical sources for the text in this work are Matthew 28:6 and 28:7, and Luke 24:48.