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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  31 Jul 2014 ~ 6.30pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  29
• Lot Description:
  Ralph Hotere
  Love Poem
  acrylic and dye on unstretched canvas
  3300mm x 880mm
  signed Hotere, dated 76 Port Chalmers and inscribed Poems Bill Manhire Music Barry Morgan Jack Body Dance John Casserly Char Hummel in brushpoint lower edge and inscribed LOVE POEM in brushpoint upper left. Inscribed There is no question of choice, but it
• Provenance:
  Acquired by the present owner from Bosshard Galleries in 1976.
• Exhibited:
  Hotere - Out the Black Window, City Gallery, Wellington, 1997. This work was loaned for the grand opening of the newly renovated premises of the New Zealand Embassy, Washington D.C. in 1980, where it was exhibited for several months.
• References:
  Baker, Kriselle and Vincent O'Sullivan. Hotere, Ron Sang Publications, 2008, p. 140. ; O'Brien, Gregory. Hotere: Out the Black Window, Ralph Hotere's work with New Zealand Poems, Auckland: Godwit Publishing Ltd, 1997, p. 63
• Estimate:
  NZ$200,000 - 250,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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