Kia Ora Cook by Lester Hall

Contemporary NZ Print

Image size in millimetres: 485 x 330
Signed studio printed edition on Epson Velvet fine art paper with K3 archival inks by contemporary NZ print-maker Lester Hall

Captain Cook imagined with a Maori moko, according to the artist showing visually how Cook was changed by his meeting with Maori on his voyages to New Zealand. This artwork in the collection of renowned Cook scholar Dame Anne Salmond who said at the time she bought it that the print reminded her of the premise behind a book she was writing about Cook having been changed by his travels.

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