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