HONOUR FOR ARTIST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 3

HONOUR FOR ARTIST

ACCEPTED BY PARIS SALON.

WORK OF MR S. F. GOLDIE.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 30

Cabled advice was received to-day that one of the Maori paintings by the Auckland artist, Mr S. F. Goldie, has been accepted by the Paris Salon. Air Goldie has also been advised that one of his, pictures has been hung by the Royal Academy in London. Last year, Mr Goldie, with the active encouragement of Lord Bledisloe, sent three of his paintings to the Royal Academy. All three were hung, and two were sold. One of these, entitled “Memories,” was purchased before the exhibition was open to the public, and realised 250 guineas. The third, which was regarded by Mr Goldie as the most important of the three, is the one that has been the subject of the. coveted French honour. A large canvas, entitled, “Thought of a Taliuna,” represented Wharekauri Tahuna, of the Tuhoe tribe, who lived at Murapara, and was 103 at the time of his death. Its acceptance by the Pari,s Salon has fully justified Mr Goldie’s opinion as to its merit. The picture accepted by the Royal Academy this year was regarded by critics who saw it before it was packed as one of the finest examples of Mr Goldie’s work. With the title, “Sleep, ’tis a gentle thing,” it represented Pokai, an old warrior chieftain of the Ngatihauwata Hapu, of the Ngatimaru tribe, who ciiod i* l 1930. The fine old Maori, with his battered European hat and old khaki coat, his face naif tattooed, and wearing a fine liei-tiki, had been caught by the artist asleep, with his head dropping and his lower lip drooping.