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Haurongo: Thompson, Pauline Adele

'Spanish shawl' (2001)

A red-haired woman in a purple shawl and green negligee looks out through a window at a night-time landscape with a tree on the horizon.

Pauline Thompson turned increasingly to depicting the lives of women in her later work, such as this 2001 oil painting.

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The Arts House Trust

by Pauline Thompson

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Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Thompson, Pauline Adele', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/47798/spanish-shawl-2001 (accessed 4 June 2026).