PRE ORDER Rita Angus: Boats, Island Bay Puzzle

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is proud to collaborate with Lettuce to release these wonderful puzzles. 

Rita Angus expressed a powerful personal vision in her paintings, embodying the world as she experienced it through vivid colour and by rendering people and landscapes with a crisp graphic intensity. A feminist and pacifist, she explored themes of identity, spirituality and relationships to the land.

In Boats, Island Bay, 1968, fishing vessels, dinghies and small yachts bob and swing on their moorings, their angles adding liveliness against the deep expanse of blue.

Fellow artist Betty Curnow recalled Angus’ fondness for Wellington’s south coast: ‘She loved Island Bay and during some of my visits we went there for the day to watch the Italian fishing boats, the children, look at the lobsterpots.’

26.5 x 21.5 x 5.5cm boxed
63.5 x 63.5cm assembled
1024 pieces
puzzle pieces come in a fabric bag inside a magnetic closure box
made with soy based inks and recycled and sustainably grown timber
includes postcard with information about the artist and artwork 
lettuce pattern on the back of puzzle pieces to assist with puzzle completion
designed in New Zealand