AUCKLAND ARTIST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20096, 1 May 1935, Page 6

AUCKLAND ARTIST

PICTURE ACCEPTED BY FRENCH SALON

NOTABLE MAORI STUDY By Telegraph—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. Mr 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 “Thoughts of a Tohunga,” it represented Wliarekauri Tahune, of the Tuhoe tribe, who lived at Murapara, and was 103 at the time of his death. Its acceptance by the Paris 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 died in 1930. This fine old Maori with his battered European hat and old khaki coat, face half tattooed and wearing a fine heitiki, had been caught by the artist asleep with his head dropping and lower lip drooping.