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Best in a Supporting Role

Behind the scenes

Guilty Gallery Pleasure #23: Adding to my running tally of the number of scenes effortlessly stolen by virtue of a canine companion's carefully cocked ear or discretely averted gaze.

Auguste Brouet, Lucie Brunet La femme au chien. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Sir Joseph Kinsey Collection

Auguste Brouet, Lucie Brunet La femme au chien. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Sir Joseph Kinsey Collection

Thomas Musgrove Joy Mrs T Fraser Grove With A Favourite Dog 1849. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1976

Thomas Musgrove Joy Mrs T Fraser Grove With A Favourite Dog 1849. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1976

Kay Anderson Boys with Bicycles. Lithograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by Mr Rex Nan Kivell, 1953. Please contact us if you can help identify the copyright holder of this work.

Kay Anderson Boys with Bicycles. Lithograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by Mr Rex Nan Kivell, 1953. Please contact us if you can help identify the copyright holder of this work.

Vivienne Shark LeWitt Untitled 1988. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1990

Vivienne Shark LeWitt Untitled 1988. Etching. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1990

Marti Friedlander Tony Fomison / Philip Clairmont Circa 1976. Photograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1998. Reproduced courtesy of Marti Friedlander

Marti Friedlander Tony Fomison / Philip Clairmont Circa 1976. Photograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1998. Reproduced courtesy of Marti Friedlander

Elizabeth Kelly Youth 1927. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by the Canterbury Society of Arts 1932

Elizabeth Kelly Youth 1927. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by the Canterbury Society of Arts 1932

William Nicholson H.M. The Queen 1899. Lithograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gifted to the Gallery by Gordon H, Brown 2008

William Nicholson H.M. The Queen 1899. Lithograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gifted to the Gallery by Gordon H, Brown 2008