Affordable Art & Studio Ceramics Wednesday, 21 October 2020 - 12:00 PM start
Douglas MacDiarmid - Banana Plantation Guadaloupe
Lot Details
Douglas MacDiarmid Banana Plantation, Guadaloupe pastel on paper signed & dated '77 (lower centre), inscribed with title to reverse 38 x 27cm Anna Cahill, Biographer | Colours of a Life: The life and times of Douglas MacDiarmid, has just sent us this interesting information with some background to the work: He painted many Caribbean pictures in the 1970s, fascinated by the spontaneity of the people, the luminous colours and intensity of light. Twenty-seven paintings were first exhibited at New Zealand House, London in October 1976, then in Paris the following year. A number of Guadeloupe paintings were later shown in New Zealand and remain in public and private ownership there. It is likely that MacDiarmid brought this pastel to New Zealand for a solo exhibition at Centre Gallery, Wellington in August, 1980.
