O let us weep, 1969

Record number
cm001590
Title
O let us weep
Date
1969
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
4 hardboard panels
Dimensions
each panel: 610 x 609 mm
Inscriptions
1: O LET US WEEP. I. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April 1969 (brushpoint, b.l.); O let us weep Colin McCahon The April Paintings 1969. No 1 of a series of four (on reverse)
2: O LET US WEEP. II. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April 1969. (brushpoint, b.l.); O let us weep Colin McCahon The April Paintings 1969. No 2 of a series of four (on reverse)
3: O LET US WEEP. III. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April '69 (brushpoint, b.r.); O let us weep Colin McCahon The April Paintings 1969. No 3 of a series of four (on reverse)
4: O LET US WEEP. IV (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April 1969 (brushpoint, b.r.); O let us weep Colin McCahon The April Paintings 1969. No 4 of a series of four (on reverse)
Extended inscriptions
2: me tangi
kapa ko te mate
e te marama
3: O let us weep
for his is not
the death of
the moon
4: and he said I am the
resurrection and I am
life if a man has faith
in me, even though he die
he shall come to life,
and no one who is alive
and has faith shall ever
die. Do you believe
this? O let us weep. 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

1988 Colin McCahon: Gates and Journeys
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
11/11/1988 - 26/2/1989

2017 Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide
City Gallery Wellington
Wellington
8/4/2017 - 30/7/2017

Notes
The texts on panels 2 and 3 are from chapter 17 of Matire Kereama's The Tail of the Fish: Maori Memories of the Far North (Oswald-Sealy, Auckland, 1968). The text on panel 4 is also from that source, as well as John 11:25-26, from The New English Bible.