BC088
Three Trees Brentwood Avenue
Landscape showing three Norfolk Island Pine trees. Framing device of diagonal element left and right lower corners, formed by unpainted or very thinly painted canvas. Horizontal bands of blurred colour lower part of canvas.
Verso pencil on strip of green repair canvas (not in artist's hand) Studio in Dominion Road. Brentwood Avenue (there for two years at various times) 1977 ... heart attack.
Verso A.T.L. Scales, Helen Flora Three trees, Brentwood Avenue. 1977 oil, 31 x 41cms Rack 396 92170½
Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979
Vertical cut left of centre. Repaired with green repair canvas by James Ross, c1979.
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
Title and date supplied by artist at time of donation, 1979.
Flora Scales cut this canvas vertically left of centre but later regretted this action. Repaired with an attachment of green canvas backing by James Ross, prior to the donation in 1979.
Scales’s life as an artist in New Zealand in the late 1970s was frequently disrupted by bouts of ill health. Noting her frustration, a visitor to her apartment at 36 Brentwood Avenue, Mt Eden, Auckland, looked out of the window and said, “paint that”, resulting in the series of three known paintings based on the trees beyond the Dominion Road flyover, Mt Eden, Auckland [View from Dominion Road [BC087], Three Trees Brentwood Avenue [BC088], Untitled [Three Trees] [BC089]]. Scales described the view in conversation with M. de Lange, 1983 as “…a stone wall with a road on top.”
This image is distinguishable from View from Dominion Road [BC087] by the predominantly red and blue brush strokes.
