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Portrait of Betty Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1941
Mother and child (Jean and Anton Jones)  1942	Joyce Milligan  1941	Timmy  1952
Mother and child  1945	Portrait of Douglas Angus  1940	Quentin Angus  1942-44
Portrait of Fred Jones  circa 1940	Self-portrait  circa 1944	Self-portrait at Clifton  circa 1945
Self-portrait (grisaille)  1941	Self-portrait (nude, seated)  circa 1942	Study for carving torso (nude self portrait)  circa 1942
Grisaille nude self-portrait (standing)  1942	Self-portrait (with moth and caterpillar)  1943	Self-portrait (with leaves)  1945
Self-portrait  1947

Mother and child

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Rita Angus began this portrait of Christine Bull (later Cole Catley) and her baby in suburban Christchurch, where the pair were living. However, she painted them in an idyllic landscape, with pine trees framing her friend’s chair and flowers clustering at her feet.

Angus noted at the time that she was experimenting in a ‘Japanese’ style. This painting recalls Japanese prints in its flat areas of colour and black outlines. As Cole Catley noted, ‘The effect is Japanese-NZ, but uniquely Rita’s.’