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Colin McCahon 'St Matthew: Lightning'
Estimate:
$1,600,000 - $2,400,000
Sold
$1,625,000
Live Auction
164.1: The Collection of Adrian Burr and Peter Tatham - Vol. 1
ARTIST
Colin McCahon
Category
Description
Colin McCahon (New Zealand, 1919-1987)
St Matthew: Lightning
synthetic polymer paint on unstretched canvas
title inscribed, signed with artist’s initials CMcC and dated Dec ’77 - Dec ’78. May ’79 in brush point lower right
2680 x 2170mm
Illustrated
Gordon Brown, Colin McCahon: Artist (Wellington, 1984), p. 186.
Peter Simpson, Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 (Auckland University Press, 2020), p. 311.
Literature
Gordon Brown, ibid., pp. 186, 207. Peter Simpson, ibid., p. 301.
Exhibited
‘Colin McCahon: Paintings’, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, 30 October- 16 November 1979.
‘A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 10 August 2019 - 27 January 2020.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM001618.
Provenance
Private collection, Lower Hutt.
Purchased from Peter Mcleavey Gallery, Wellington, 1979.
Collection of Adrian Burr and Peter Tatham.
Purchased from Peter McLeavey Gallery through John Gow, Gow Langsford Gallery, with the assistance of Dame Patsy Reddy, 1 December 1999.
St Matthew: Lightning
synthetic polymer paint on unstretched canvas
title inscribed, signed with artist’s initials CMcC and dated Dec ’77 - Dec ’78. May ’79 in brush point lower right
2680 x 2170mm
Illustrated
Gordon Brown, Colin McCahon: Artist (Wellington, 1984), p. 186.
Peter Simpson, Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 (Auckland University Press, 2020), p. 311.
Literature
Gordon Brown, ibid., pp. 186, 207. Peter Simpson, ibid., p. 301.
Exhibited
‘Colin McCahon: Paintings’, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, 30 October- 16 November 1979.
‘A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 10 August 2019 - 27 January 2020.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM001618.
Provenance
Private collection, Lower Hutt.
Purchased from Peter Mcleavey Gallery, Wellington, 1979.
Collection of Adrian Burr and Peter Tatham.
Purchased from Peter McLeavey Gallery through John Gow, Gow Langsford Gallery, with the assistance of Dame Patsy Reddy, 1 December 1999.
