ALDIS, Albert Edward;
Foreshore, Saint Marys Bay, Auckland
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1888
Oil on canvas
370 x 600mm
As the title indicates, this painting shows Saint Marys Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau. The area has radically changed since the work was created. The boats shown are premonitory. The eponymous bay has been subsumed by Westhaven Marina and there is no longer a foreshore.
Inscriptions
AAldis. 1888. [l.r.]References
Peter Shaw, Rainbow Over Mount Eden: Images of Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau: Godwit, 2002), 50–51.
Provenance
1987–
Fletcher Trust Collection, purchased from Webb’s, Tāmaki Makaurau, 3 December 1987, lot 158
–1987
Unknown