Only 100 printed on 170gsm paper with a stainless steel cover bound in black leather and mini bolts contained in a heart rimu lidded wooden box.

Ralph Hotere is widely regarded as one of the country's most significant painters. He and his friend Colin McCahon were the two New Zealand painters included in the Phaidon Twentieth-Century Book of Art, while his standing as a Maori artist is unique.

This volume celebrates that pre-eminence, bringing together 240 of his major paintings, and includes two long essays on this life and work written by Vincent O'Sullivan "Sketching the Artist" and Kriselle Baker "He Kuaka Marangaranga A Godwit that Hovers".

297 x 297mm hardcover with French-fold jacket

324 pages with a five-page foldout

250 full colour plates and 9 Marti Friedlander photographs of Hotere

Photography - Simon Harper

Essays - Kriselle Baker, Vincent O'Sullivan

Publisher - Ron Sang