NZ & International Fine Art - Part One Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 6:00 PM start

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Ralph Hotere - Requiem for Tony Watson

Realised: $24,000 plus premium

Lot Details

Ralph Hotere (1931-2013) Requiem for Tony Watson watercolour and graphite on paper signed and dated 'Hotere/ Port Chalmers/'74' (lower right), inscribed with title (lower left) 50 x 69cm Provenance Sale, International Art Centre, Auckland, 8 November 2001 (lot 49) 'The densely packed rhythms of the Requiem paintings were an experiment in visual pitch - Hotere seeking the perfect harmony between interval and line. They are saturated with the memory of his mother, Ana Maria Hotere, and his friend the composer Anthony Watson. The funereal blackness of these works and their tautly stretched fragility are a keening litany of grief and loss - the Requiem as a sung mass and these images the visual equivalent of the tangi as both ceremony and sound.' Ralph Hotere, The Artist (Ron Sang Publications 2008)