Night fishing, French Bay , 1957

Record number
cm001760
Title
Night fishing, French Bay
Date
1957
Medium
monoprint
Support
paper
Dimensions
205 x 127 mm
Inscriptions
Colin McCahon (pencil, l.l.-l.c.); Night fishing French Bay. / 4 (pencil, b.l.-b.r.)
Credit line
Gift of Ron Brownson, 1981
Accession number
1981-0009-1
Exhibition history

1983 Colin McCahon: The Mystical Landscape
National Art Gallery
Wellington
12/12/1983 - 21/1/1984

Notes
There are eight of these monoprints, which were pulled from a cardboard template prepared with diluted ink over which the paper support was then pressed. Gordon H Brown notes that 'During printing, the ink that escaped from being directly transferred from the plate to the paper was absorbed into the rest of the paper as a lighter tone.' As a result, each impression is distinctive.