Rutu

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Title

Rutu

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Of the many self-portraits produced by Rita Angus throughout her life, Rutu is one of the most enigmatic, richly symbolic and compelling. Although Rutu certainly bears a striking resemblance to the artist, her letters to composer Douglas Lilburn reveal that she regarded the painting as an imaginary portrait rather than a self-portrait. Angus described the genesis of the painting to Lilburn in June 1944: ‘I be...

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Format

Image

Date created

1951

Creator

Rita Angus

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39499

Related subjects

Self-portraits / Goddesses / Landscape paintings / Flowers / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Buddhism / Astrology / Waikanae / Christchurch

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