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With this show it was hoped that a series of exhibitions introducing contemporary European painters to the New Zealand public would begin. These exhibitions would, it was hoped, represent a smaller number of artists more effectively than was possible in large group shows.

The exhibition was shown in four centres only and was toured by the Auckland Art Gallery with the assistance of the Arts Advisory Council.

The three British painters, Ivon Hitchens, Josef Herman and Alan Davie, from three different generations represented three different trends in contemporary British painting. There were ten to twelve large paintings by each artist.

Admission was one shilling and the catalogue, compiled by Colin McCahon, Keeper at Auckland Art Gallery was one shilling and sixpence.