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John Walsh - Pare to My Place, 2017
Estimate:
$60,000 - $80,000
Sold
$50,000
Live Auction
IMPORTANT & RARE ART
ARTIST
JOHN WALSH (b. 1954)
Size
156 x 308
Description
Oil on unstretched canvas
Provenance
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Auckland PAULNACHE, Gisborne
Literature
The image is derived from traditional Pare, door lintel. You pass under them to enter a whare, a house or space. They would often depict an ancestral figure surrounded by aspects of cosmology. We are to negotiate the lores, laws, whakapapa, puzzles to proceed. John Walsh
Exhibited
EXHIBITED
Art Central, Hong Kong, 21- 25 March 2017
