<em>If a man walks after nightfall</em>, 1969
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If a man walks after nightfall, 1969

Record number
cm001525
Title

If a man walks after nightfall

Date
1969
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
hardboard
Dimensions
605 x 605 mm
Inscriptions

LET US GO BACK TO JUDAEA [sic] (brushpoint, t.c.); McCahon April '69 (brushpoint, b.r.); The April Paintings 1969 - No.10. Let us go back to Judea (on reverse, not sighted)

Extended inscriptions

If a man walks
after nightfall he
stumbles because
the light fails him
E KORE E MAU I A KOE, HE WAEKAI PAKIAKA.

Exhibition history

1969 An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin McCahon
Peter McLeavey Gallery
Wellington
22/7/1969 - 9/8/1969

1969 New Zealand Society of Painters and Sculptors
Auckland Society of Arts Galleries
Auckland
12/5/1969 - 25/5/1969

Notes

The texts are John 11:10 (with slight modifications), from The New English Bible, and from chapter six of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968). A translation of this proverb is 'A foot accustomed to running over roots makes the speediest runner.'