<em>[Madonna and Child with Angels for the play Murder in the Cathedral]</em>, 1940
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[Madonna and Child with Angels for the play Murder in the Cathedral], 1940

Record number
cm000998
Title

[Madonna and Child with Angels for the play Murder in the Cathedral]

Date
c. 1940 - 1942
Dimensions
1980 x 2800 mm
Extended inscriptions

MIChAEL ARC / HANGELVS (t.l.); CHERUBIN (t.r.)

Notes

Painted with the assistance of Doris Lusk and Anne Hamblett, for the stage set of a 1941 Dunedin production of T. S. Elliot's Murder in the Cathedral. (See Marja Bloem and Martin Browne, Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith, Craig Potton Publishing and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2002.)