Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’65; l.c. in pencil: Drawings for black paintings. Zero is round, zero is black, zero is zero; u.c. in pencil: too small - zero is round; l.l. in pencil: crap; l.l. in…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’69; C. in red fibre tipped pen: delete; l.c. in red fibre tipped pen: All is black and there is no black? (Suzuki).
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawing for Stations of the Cross. Hotere; l.c. in ballpoint pen: Jeffrey Harris, 9 Cashmere View Rd, Christchurch; through image: [numerals & colour notes].
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D. Lusk 1964; verso backing board: Self portrait 1954 [retraced to read] 1964 Doris Lusk Christchurch; stamp: A.J. Hall Ltd