Peter McIntyre New Zealand, 1910-1995
Thai Silk Drying
Oil on canvas
86.5 x 97 cm (framed)
60 x 75 cm (unframed)
60 x 75 cm (unframed)
Illustrated Peter McIntyre's Pacific plate 37
Signed
Further images
Thai Silk is a home industry and so along the waterways sudden splashes of glorious colour enrich the already colourful scene as the silks are hung up to dry. Bits...
Thai Silk is a home industry and so along the waterways sudden splashes of glorious colour enrich the already colourful scene as the silks are hung up to dry. Bits of coloured glass, bits of broken crockery, pebbles and what-have-you, all stuck into cement in an orgy of profusion: that is a temple.
- Peter McIntyre
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
ILLUSTRATED
Peter McIntyre, Peter McIntyre's Pacific (Lane Magazine and Book Co., 1970) plate 37