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Trevor Moffitt (1936–2006) graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1959. Moffitt was New Zealand's leading narrative painters.
In September 2001 a retrospective show of Trevor Moffitt’s work titled Woman was held at the Warwick Henderson Gallery in Parnell, Auckland.
Below is a quote from the review by T.J McNamara published in New Zealand Herald.
This retrospective show is titled Women and there is a large group of works from
1976-77 that are nudes and nude portraits as well as a dozen or more paintings from
Moffitt's Human Condition Series.
The nudes are solid flesh, their lumpish bodies matched by truculent expressions.
One characteristic is often emphasised - black hair in Nude Model, a curtain of
yellow hair in Nordic with the addition of a bleak mouth indicated by a single brush
stroke.
In the best of these paintings the women have a sense of place. Young, confident,
Angela No. 1, with her prominent pubic hair, is set against a door with a stained-
glass panel that gives an evocative sense of time and place.
Image Dimensions: 1210mm W x 1190mm H
Framing: Framed
Framed Dimensions: 1290mm W x 1310mm H
