BC108

Untitled

[Fremantle sketchbook]

Top spiral-bound grey covered sketchbook branded Spiroflex, No 121, 48 spirals, 9 leaves, containing drawings of:

Page 1: blank, signed ink H. Scales, pencil H. Scales

Page 2: figure at sea

Page 3: figures at sea

Page 4: landscape with rainbow

Page 5: landscape

Page 6: Arum lilies

Page 7: Arum lilies

Page 8: Arum lilies

Page 9: figures

All oil pastels except page 2 which is pencil

Date
1977 1978
Object type
sketchbook
Medium and materials
variable on paper
Dimensions
247x270mm
Place Made
Europe (onboard SS Shota Rustaveli), Auckland and Lake Rotoiti, Rotorua, New Zealand
Inscriptions

Front cover UL (in artist's hand) H. Scales

Front cover UR (in artist's hand) H Scales Purchased in Fremantle, May, 1977

Front cover UR label Shepherd's 75c

Front cover overleaf centre pencil H. Scales

Front cover overleaf LR ink H. Scales

Page 1 LR ink H. Scales

Page 1 LR pencil H. Scales

Page 2 LR pencil H. Scales

Page 3 LL ink H. F. V. Scales May 1977

Page 3 LR ink H. F. V. Scales May 1977

Page 3 LR pencil H Scales

Page 4 LL [illegible] Rotorua 1987

Page 4 LR pencil H. Scales

Page 4 LR ink H. Scales

Page 5 LL Lake Rotorua

Page 5 LR ink H Scales

Page 5 LR pencil 1978

Page 6 LR ink H. Scales

Page 7 LL pencil Brentwood 1978

Page 7 LR ink H. Scales

Page 8 LL pencil Brentwood

Page 8 LR ink H. Scales

Page 8 LR pencil 1978

Page 9 centre left ink Helen Scales May 1977 in the bar at sea

Page 9 LR pencil H. Scales

Back cover inside pencil H Scales

Details
Provenance

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979

Copyright Licence
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Reference no. E-356-q
Current Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Current Location

Wellington, New Zealand

General notes

Includes drawings done while Flora Scales was a passenger on-board the SS Shota Rostaveli on her trip back to New Zealand from France in 1977 [pages 2, 3, 9].

When the SS Shota Rustaveli docked in Piraeus, Greece, Scales's niece, Diana Zaharopoulos (nee Westacott, later Mills), collected her and took her home to her flat in Athens for the night. Correspondence Diana Mills to B. de Lange, 02.11.1983, “Although Aunt Lass [Flora] seemed a little older, she still seemed the old Aunt Lass, upright and full of courage.”

This was to be the last journey Scales made between Europe and New Zealand.

The inscribed “Brentwood” [pages 7, 8] refers to her home at 38 Brentwood Avenue, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. Scales lived in this Mt Eden address 1975-1978 after she arrived in Auckland from Dunedin. During this time her major solo exhibition, Helen F.V. Scales, was held at the Auckland City Art Gallery. Scales returned to France in late 1976 for a few months before returning again to the Brentwood Avenue address in May 1977. She resided there until 26 October 1978 when she moved to the Rotorua Masonic Village until just before her death in January 1985.