Good as Goldie

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Print sizes and editions

- Regular archival print - 688 x 585mm
(limited to 75)
- Large archival print - 982 x 835mm
(limited to 75)
- Extra Large museum canvas print - 1147 X 975mm
(limited to 75)

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- Sofia Minson creates your exclusive signed print
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Original painting SOLD, oil on canvas, 1300 x 1300 mm, 2012

The story of

Paying homage to C.F. Goldie and to his most notorious forger Karl Sim, Minson has modelled this work after Goldie's "All e same te Pakeha" from 1905, which is also known as "A Good Joke".

In the original, Goldie breaks from his melancholic tone and depicts a laughing Hami Te Piripi wearing a bowler hat and a European suit. In Minson's "Good As Goldie", Sims, who was arrested for ar...