90 EVELYN PAGE 1899 - 1988 Study for Nude Sewing Charcoal on paper 31.5 x 25.5 Signed & inscribed ‘A Study’
REFERENCE Study for Nude Sewing
ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
As with all her major works, Page made many preliminary sketches and usually one final drawing which she signed.
PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Estate
The model for Nude Sewing was a young household help who posed before the light-filled French doors in the artist’s home.
Acknowledged as New Zealand’s most celebrated and accomplished painter of nudes, Evelyn Page painted no more than a dozen major works from this genre throughout her career. Of these Nude Sewing is one of her finest and is now in the collection of Te Papa.
REFERENCE Study for Girl at a Coffee Bar (1981) 91 EVELYN PAGE 1899 - 1988 Study for Girl in a Coffee Bar Charcoal on paper 35.0 x 26.0 Signed
Girl at a Coffee Bar (Bank of New Zealand collection) is one of Evelyn Page’s most well loved paintings. The work is based on the Mon Marie coffee bar, an iconic Wellington meeting place from the 1960s and 70s.
ESTIMATE $4,000 - 6,000
The preparatory sketches were made at the coffee bar in Marjoribanks Street, but finding the models too busy and too allusive, Evelyn Page had a coffee bar set up in her living room and used friends and colleagues as models.
PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist’s Estate
Study for Girl at a Coffee Bar is a completed study for the final work and features the subjects and objects Page included in the finished oil.
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Important, Early & Rare Thursday 26th July 2012