

Colin McCahon
603 x 2406mm overall
1: THE CANOE MARAMI. [sic] THE FIRST HISTORY. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April '69 (brushpoint, b.l.); Colin McCahon / The canoe Mamari / No 1 of a series of 4 / The April / Paintings. 1969 (on reverse)
2: THE CANOE MARAMA. [sic] THE SECOND HISTORY. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April '69. (brushpoint, b.l.); Colin McCahon / The Canoe Mamari / No 2 of a series of 4 / The April Paintings / 1969 (on reverse)
3: THE CANOE MAMARI. THE THIRD HISTORY. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April '69 (brushpoint, b.l.); Colin McCahon / The Canoe Mamari / No 3 of a series of 4 / The April paintings / 1969. (on reverse)
4: THE CANOE MAMARI. THE FOURTH HISTORY. (brushpoint, t.l.); McCahon April '69. (brushpoint, b.l.); Colin McCahon / The Canoe Mamari / No 4. Series of 4 / The April Paintings 1969 (on reverse)
Extended inscriptions
1: THE CHIEF OF THE CANOE
WAS RANUI
HIS SONS WERE
KORAKO-NUI-A-RUA
TE MARU-O-TE-
HUIA
AND RUATAPU.
2: KORAKO-NUI-A-
-RUA HAD
A SON MATITI WHOSE
SON WAS HAKUMANU
WHOSE SON WAS TAIWAWE
WHOSE SON WAS
TUPUTA
3: TUPATA HAD A SON
RUANUI (THE SECOND)
WHOSE SON WAS TARAUAUA
WHOSE SON WAS MORE
WHOSE SONS WERE TE
IKANUI AND WHEERU.
WHEERU MARRIED
TAIMAINIA
4: TE IKANUI WHO WAS
YOUNGER THAN HIS BROTHER
WHEERU HAD A LARGE
FAMILY
AND MANY DESCENDANTS.
THE CHIEF OF THE CANOE WAS
RUANUI
THE NAME OF THE
CANOE WAS
MAMARI
Provenance
Collection of Dame Jenny GibbsMcCahon Trust Number: cm001481
Exhibitions
An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin McCahon, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, 22/7/1969 - 9/8/1969
Colin McCahon: A Time for Messages, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2/2/2001 - 13/5/2001
Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 25/4/2009 - 21/2/2010
Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, 8/4/2017 - 30/7/2017
Art Basel Hong Kong with Gow Langsford Gallery, 29-31 March 2018, Hong Kong
Colin McCahon: A Journey, 23 November 2024 - 25 January 2025, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand