Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, 1969

Record number
cm001626
Title
Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep
Date
1969
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
hardboard
Dimensions
600 x 600 mm
Inscriptions
OUR FRIEND LAZURUS HAS FALLEN ASLEEP / BUT WE SHALL GO AND WAKE HIM. (brushpoint, t.r.); Colin McCahon Oct 13 -14. '69. (brushpoint, b.l.); Colin McCahon / OUR FRIEND LAZURUS / HAS FALLEN ASLEEP / OCTOBER 1969 (on reverse)
Extended inscriptions
are there not twelve hours
of daylight. Anyone can
walk in day-time without
stumbling because he sees
the light of this world:
if he walks after night-
fall he stumbles because
the light fails him.
JESUS SAID "I am the resurrection, 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?"
Exhibition history
Notes
The text is John 11:9-10, 25-26, from The New English Bible