{"product_id":"rita-angus-boats-island-bay-puzzle","title":"PRE ORDER Rita Angus: Boats, Island Bay Puzzle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is proud to collaborate with Lettuce to release these wonderful puzzles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRita 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFellow 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.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26.5 x 21.5 x 5.5cm boxed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e63.5 x 63.5\u003c\/span\u003ecm assembled\u003cbr\u003e1024 pieces\u003cbr\u003epuzzle pieces come in a fabric bag inside a magnetic closure box\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emade with soy based inks and recycled and sustainably grown timber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eincludes postcard with information about the artist and artwork \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003elettuce pattern on the back of puzzle pieces to assist with puzzle completion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003edesigned in New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland Art Gallery, Rita Angus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50153469378810,"sku":"9420075407138","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1296\/6027\/files\/sku-web-box-boats-island-bay-rita-angus-puzzle.png?v=1787540979","url":"https:\/\/shop.aucklandartgallery.com\/products\/rita-angus-boats-island-bay-puzzle","provider":"Auckland Art Gallery Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}