The painting, sold for NZ$3.75m (£1.7m), was first shown in Paris, France, in 1939 and shows a kaumātua (tribe elder) with an elaborate moko, which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing ...

Robyn Kahukiwa, a Māori painter who became one of the most famous artists in Aotearoa New Zealand, died of an illness at 86 ...