THOMPSON, Arthur;
Sale Street, Freemans Bay
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1976
Ink and watercolour on paper
450 x 560mm
Here the artist has revisited a sketch he originally made in 1933, when Auckland’s central city streets were still lined with overcrowded and unsanitary Victorian houses. By 1976 they looked charming, the more so as their demolition proceeded. Arthur Thompson’s watercolour captures the ambiguity.
Inscriptions
Sale St Freemans Bay from sketch made by AAT 1933 [l.l.] Arthur Thompson 76 [l.r.]References
Peter Shaw, Rainbow Over Mount Eden: Images of Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau: Godwit, 2002), 132–33.