Les deux amies (The two friends)

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Les deux amies (The two friends)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). In Louise Henderson’s Les deux amies, two female lovers are intimately entwined in a series of delicate interlocking planes. Their embrace is gentle, but their bodies are strong and angular, broken up into geometric facets like roughly hewn marble statues. Never before in New Zealand had two women been painted quite like this. In 1953 Louise Henderson returned to New Zealand from Paris, where she had spent a ...

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Image

Date created

1953

Creator

Louise Henderson

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1184013

Related subjects

LGBTQI+ / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Cubist / Auckland

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