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Untitled [Woman in a Sunhat]
Date
circa 1910
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Object Detail
Catalogue number
FH0539
Date
circa 1910
Brief Description
This stylishly dressed woman is sitting at the stern of a boat, her hand steadying her hat against the sea breeze. The strong reflections of light behind her signal it is late afternoon. Earlier painters such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted similar compositions in oils. Yet Frances Hodkgins is never derivative. She noted: '. . . it is so easy to paint like your master & to think other people’s thoughts, the difficulty is to be yourself, assimilate all that is helpful but keep your own individuality, as your most precious possession – it is one’s only chance.
Medium
watercolour
Dimensions
312 x 310 mm
Collection
Institutional number
2007/8/10
Credit line
Auckland
Art
Gallery
Toi
o
Tāmaki,
The
Ilene
and
Laurence
Dakin
Bequest,
purchased
2007
Provenance
Private Collection, France.
Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France.
Purchased by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France, 2007.
Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France.
Purchased by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from Galerie Mathieu Neouze, Paris, France, 2007.
