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Colin McCahon 'South Canterbury Landscape'
Estimate:
$250,000 - $320,000
Sold
$260,000
Live Auction
159: Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
ARTIST
Colin McCahon
Category
art
Description
Colin McCahon
South Canterbury Landscape
synthetic polymer paint on board
signed and dated ’68 and inscribed Canterbury; title inscribed, signed and dated verso
446 x 558mm
Provenance
Collection of Les and Milly Paris, Wellington.
Private collection, Auckland.
Purchased from Gow Langsford Gallery in 2003.
Literature
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) cm001090.

Art New Zealand, No. 4, February - March 1977, p.20, 21.
Gordon H. Brown, Colin McCahon: Artist (Auckland, 1984), plate 100.

Literature
Jim Barr, ‘The Les and Milly Paris Family Collection’, in Art New Zealand, No. 4, February - March 1977, p. 21.
Gordon H. Brown, Colin McCahon: Artist (Auckland, 1984), p. 195.
Exhibited
‘Colin McCahon’, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, 14-25 October, 1968.
‘Hit Parade - Contemporary Art from the Paris Family Collection’, City Gallery, Wellington, 13 December 1992 - 28 February 1993.