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Date
Collection
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Look down, O Lord, to my help
, 1969
Record number
cm001173
Title
Look down, O Lord, to my help
Series
Written paintings and drawings
Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1593 x 552 mm
Inscriptions
Psalm 39
(conté crayon, b.l.);
McCahon Sept 30 69
(conté crayon, b.r.)
Collection
Private collection
Extended inscriptions
Look down,
/
O LORD,
/
TO MY HELP, let
/
them be confound
/
ed
/
and ashamed
/
that seek after
/
my soul.
to take it away:
/
LOOK DOWN,
/
O LORD
/
TO MY HELP.
Exhibition history
1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969
Notes
The text is Psalm 39:13-14 as it appears in the
New Sunday Missal
(Catholic Book Publishing Co, New York, 1961).