Red baby.

Red baby by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

1945

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 73/74

a5445

14 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Red baby. Watercolour. Signed vertically lower left McCahon 44 [sic] c. 24 x 20. (Anne & William) watercolour. Painted at Renwicktown, Blenheim - the red was a zoot suit thing. The chair is the same one as previously painted - or was it? The dating of this work & its actual origins remain a forgotten thing - did my sister have a similar victorian chair? I have a definitely Renwicktown drawing of Anne in the same chair."

Lower left (l.l.) vertically: McCahon 45; (depicts artist’s wife Anne holding son William.)

Anne Hamblett

607 x 502 mm

watercolour on paper

Estate of Mrs E.M. McCahon, Geraldine.

John & Ethel McCahon Bequest, 1973.

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