The Awatere, Marlborough

Oil on canvas board

71 x 57.5 cm

Signed

Illustrated Peter McIntyre's New Zealand plate 37

“I was visiting a farm in the Awatere Valley and idly wandered beyond the garden and the dog-kennels to find myself suddenly on the edge of a cliff of startling height – and this was the scene below. The sudden break and height of the cliff seemed to separate the scene above from the one below, and I had the feeling of being an intruder looking down into another world.”

- Peter McIntyre’s New Zealand, 1964

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