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NameEntombment (after Titian)
ProductionColin McCahon; artist; 1947; Nelson
Classificationpaintings
Materialsoil paint, cardboard, hardboard
Materials Summaryoil on cardboard
DimensionsImage: 644mm (width), 517mm (height)
Registration Number1980-0008-2
Credit linePurchased 1980 from the Molly Morpeth Canaday Fund
Overview
At work in 1945 ... McCahon saw some men putting up two power poles with a connecting beam against a brilliant light-white flecked sky - ‘the nearest thing I am likely to see to a crucifixion group’ ... the germ of an idea … enabled the expression of a universal human experience in local terms.
Luit Bieringa, McCahon: ‘Religious’ Works 1946-1952, 1975