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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen-Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Nov 2016 ~ 6.30pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  45
• Lot Description:
  Rita Angus
  Portrait of Judy Jones
  oil on board, 1965
  510mm x 390mm
  signed RITA ANGUS in brushpoint lower right
• Provenance:
  From the collection of Judy Tait (nee Jones).
• Notes:
  In 1965, my eldest daughter Julie was over three, Jenny was 13 months old and I was 22. Early that year, Rita arranged to stay with us at Maungataniwha, where my first husband, Anton Mansell Angus Jones (son of Fred and Jean Jones), was working for Rita's father William (Bill) Angus. The settlement, inland from the railway stop at Kotemaori, Hawke's Bay, was a farming and logging base for Bill Angus' development project, clearing scrub prior to its use for farming of the area. Previously there had been a sawmill to process the rimu logs and Rita insisted that she stay in one of the now vacant huts originally built for the sawmill workers, but came to us each day for about 7-10 days, for an evening meal and to use the bathroom facilities. Jill Trevelyan's book has a summary (pages 309-311) of her time with us including her sketching from one of our bedroom windows the ;burning bush (scrub) which she later developed into a stunning oil. I understand that one of Rita's commitments during her lifetime was to paint a portrait of each of her family members, starting with brothers and sisters, but then including nephews and nieces, and later great nephews and great nieces and prior to her visit, Rita had prepared painted boards to serve as background for our portraits. She then sketched on these backgrounds while we sat for her. As Jenny was so young, we sat her in a high chair and gave her little orange juice ice cubes to suck when she became restless. Rita came to stay with us in February and it was extremely hot. The only showing of our three oil portraits (NFS) was at a "Group Show" in Wellington that included Rita's, Jean's and Timmy Angus's work, all not for sale, in the 1970s. JUDY TAIT, NEICE-IN-LAW OF RITA ANGUS
• Estimate:
  NZ$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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