‘Rozzie at Pisa’. Egg Tempera. 610 x 610mm. 1978. National Collection, Te Papa Tongarewa.

Measures 60.5 x 61cm.  Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper.  Flat $12 rate within NZ.  Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

Painted in 1978 when living in a cottage on Mount Pisa Station, this portrait of Grahame’s then wife, Ros, shows her standing at the kitchen door of the cottage, lost in her own thoughts.  When the NZ Listener conducted a reader’s survey to find NZ’s most popular painting, this portrait was headed only by Rita Angus’s ‘Cass’.  GCS