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JOHN WALSH - Tane Creates Hineahuone
Estimate:
$25,000 - $35,000
Passed
Live Auction
IMPORTANT & RARE ART
ARTIST
JOHN WALSH (b. 1954)
Size
139.5 x 196 cm
Description
Oil on canvas
Signature
Signed, dated 2002 & titled verso
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland, Purchased from John Leech Gallery. 2002
Literature
Tāne is a celebrated figure. Among his many feats was the creation of a woman from the soil at Kurawaka. Her name was Hineahuone (the female element who comes from the soil). Hineahuone and Tāne had a daughter named Hinetītama, who also became known as Hinenui-i-te-pō. As Hinetītama, she became the custodian of the threshold between night and day, darkness and light. Hine is seen both in the morning with the birth of sunlight, and in the evening with the setting sun. It is said that these are the ancestors of human kind.
Exhibited
John Leech Gallery
