Gottfried Lindauer: His Life and Maori Art

Gottfried Lindauer: His Life and Maori Art.

Publisher: Malcolm McGregor, Auckland / Sydney, 1985.

Very good Softback, some creasing and edge wear, small tear on bottom of spine. Covers are foxed, minor marks & tanning inside, mark to ffep where gift label has been removed. 45 x 35 cm. 12 beautiful poster size reproductions of Lindauer's art on canvas textured paper.

Book is designed so that each print can be easily removed and framed. All plates are in very good condition. 52 pages including biographies of the Maori subjects. White pictorial cover depicting a Maori mother and child. Treated and canvas textured paper, with twelve amazing reproductions, mostly of Maori tribes people. Biography of Lindauer, with full page colour reproductions of his art, and lengthy commentary on each reproduced painting, which include a self portrait but mostly depict Maori lifeways, tattoos and clothing. ERUERA MAIHI PATUONE TE RANGITOPEORA HURIA MATENGA KEETA OF MANUKORIHI WIREMU TAMEHANA TARAPIPIPI TE WAHAROA REWI MANGA MANIAPOTO HAMIORA TU MAJOR ROPATA WAHAWAHA, N.Z.C. TOHUNGA UNDER TAPU THE TOHUNGA-TA-MOKO AT WORK THE TIME OF KAI