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Self-portrait  1966	Journey, Wellington  1962	Woman Sketching AD1965  1965
Moon, July 6th  1965	Moon, July 7th  1965	Moon, July 8th  1965
Moon, July 9th  1965	Moon, July 10th  1965	Moon, July 10th  1965
Moon, July 11th  1965	Moon, July 11th  1965	Moon, July 12th  1965
Moon, July 14th  1965	Moon, July 16th  1965	Moon, July 17th  1965
Growth  1968	Sunset, London  1958	Moon (Leaf Series)  1965
Space  circa 1965	Autumn  circa 1963	Tulip fields, Holland  circa 1959
Study for memorial mural, Napier Girls’ High School  1960	Study for memorial mural, Napier Girls’ High School  1960	Study for memorial mural, Napier Girls’ High School  1960

Moon (Leaf Series)

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This is one of a group of works in which Rita Angus experiments with greatly magnified images from nature. The painting, she commented, is a view ‘seen through the eye of a caterpillar’.

Angus shows a plant silhouetted against a glowing moon, set among the rooftops of her Wellington neighbourhood. Like her other works from this period, the painting combines the familiar with the strange.