Let us possess one world, 1955

Record number
cm001410
Title

Let us possess one world

Date
1955
Medium
enamel, oil
Support
hardboard
Dimensions
760 x 560 mm (s)
Inscriptions

McCahon / MAY - JULY '55 (brushpoint, t.r.)

Exhibition history

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

1972 Colin McCahon: A Survey Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
7/3/1972 - 23/4/1972

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

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

Notes

The line 'Let us possess one world' derives from the poem 'The Good-Morrow' by John Donne (1572-1631).