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    Séraphine Pick

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1964

    First Clear Word

    • 2004
    • Hard ground etching
    • Purchased, 2004
    • Reproduced with permission
    • 378 x 557mm
    • 2004/74

    Tags: crosses (visual works), deaths, graves, jewelry, monochrome, necklaces, nudes (representations), people (agents), women (female humans)

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    Exhibition History

    Steve Carr A Shot in the Dark (The Bachelor) (detail) 2008. C-type print mounted on dibond. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2008. Image courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland
    The Naked and the Nude
    Raymond McIntyre Ruth. Oil on panel. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Presented by the McIntyre family, 1938
    Art School 125: 125 Years of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury
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