<em>The Virgin and Child compared</em>, 1948
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The Virgin and Child compared, 1948

Record number
cm000825
Title

The Virgin and Child compared

Date
1948
Medium
oil
Support
canvas on board
Dimensions
1053 x 805 mm
Inscriptions

McCahon NOV '48 (brushpoint, b.r.)

Credit line
Given by Dr Charles Brasch, Dunedin, 1963
Accession number
20,924
Extended inscriptions

The Blessed / Virgin / Compared / to a jug / of pure / water / and the / infant / Jesus to a / lamp (brushpoint, c.l.-b.l.)

Exhibition history

1949 McCahon and Woollaston
Helen Hitchings Gallery
Wellington
30/7/1949 - 5/8/1949

1949 [McCahon and Woollaston]
Modern Productions Ltd.
Auckland
13/8/1949 - 30/8/1949

1958 Thirty-seven New Zealand Paintings from the collection of Charles Brasch and Rodney Kennedy
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
8/1958 - 9/1958

1972 Colin McCahon: A Survey Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
7/3/1972 - 23/4/1972

1975 McCahon 'Religious' Works 1946-1952
Manawatu Art Gallery
Palmerston North
3/1975 - 3/1975

1980 Colin McCahon
Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Christchurch
22/8/1980 - 19/10/1980

1988 Colin McCahon: Gates and Journeys
Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland
11/11/1988 - 26/2/1989

2002 Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
30/8/2002 - 10/11/2002

2016 Highlights at Hocken
University of Otago Library
Otago
27/5/2016 - 22/10/2016

2017 Freefall
University of Otago Library
Otago
6/5/2017 - 1/7/2017