Artist: E Mervyn Taylor (1906-1964)
Title: Tipa releasing Mata
Date: 1947
School: New Zealand
Medium: wood engraving on Southland beech wood, printed on rice paper attached at the four corners to a secondary support
Dimensions: 180 x 125mm (image); 220 x 167mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: on the primary support in graphite lower left to lower right <<Ed:16……..E Mervyn Taylor>>
Condition: fine condition
Description: Tipa unbinds Mata who lies in a magnificently carved Māori waka. One of sixteen impressions issued in the late 1940s following the publication of George M. Henderson’s Taina, The Wingfield Press, 1948, ill. facing page 137.
Reference: Bryan James, E. Mervyn Taylor Artist: Craftsman, Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2006, p. 61
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2023
E Mervyn Taylor
Tipa releasing Mata
1947
SOLD
A superb wood engraving by New Zealand’s master of the medium
