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Toss Woollaston Mapua oil on hardboard signed; title inscribed verso, original ‘Woollaston 1933 – 1972 Manawatu Art Gallery’ exhibition label affixed verso. 1210 x 2750mm Exhibited ‘M. T Woollaston: Paintings’, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, 12 September – 1 October, 1971 ‘M. T Woollaston: Works, 1933 – 1973’, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, August 1973 (touring nationally), Cat No. 53
Illustrated Luit Bieringa, M. T Woollaston: Works, 1933 – 1973 (Pelorus Press, Auckland, 1973), p. 53. Jill Trevelyan, Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer (Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2013), p. 126 Provenance Collection of John Casserley, USA. Purchased by him from Peter McLeavey in the early 1970s. Collection of Ron Sang. $100 000 - $150 000
Literature Jill Trevelyan, Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer (Te Papa Press, 2013), pp. 130 – 131.
Opposite image: Peter McLeavey and Don Binney carry Mapua across Cuba St, 23 September 1971.