Peter McIntyre New Zealand, 1910-1995
The Awatere, Marlborough
Oil on canvas board
71 x 57.5 cm
Illustrated Peter McIntyre's New Zealand plate 37
Signed
“I was visiting a farm in the Awatere Valley and idly wandered beyond the garden and the dog-kennels to find myself suddenly on the edge of a cliff of startling...
“I was visiting a farm in the Awatere Valley and idly wandered beyond the garden and the dog-kennels to find myself suddenly on the edge of a cliff of startling height – and this was the scene below. The sudden break and height of the cliff seemed to separate the scene above from the one below, and I had the feeling of being an intruder looking down into another world.”
- Peter McIntyre’s New Zealand, 1964