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Colin McCahon 'Entombment after Titian'
Estimate:
$450,000 - $650,000
Sold
$910,000
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)
Entombment after Titian
oil on board
title inscribed, signed and dated ’46
515 x 635mm
Literature
Laurence Simmons, ‘After Titian’, in, The Image Always Has The Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography (Dunmore Press, 2002), pp. 52-67.
Illustrated
Peter Simpson, Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Volume 1 1919-1959 (Auckland University Press, 2019), p. 111.
Laurence Simmons, The Image Always Has The Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography (Dunmore Press, 2002), p. 66.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM001089.
Exhibited
‘Colin McCahon: Exhibition of Paintings’, Wellington Public Library, 2 February - 21 February 1948.
‘McCahon and Woollaston’, Helen Hitchings Gallery, Wellington, 30 July - 5 August 1949.
‘McCahon Religions Works: 1946-1952’, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, March 1975.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to R.C Lamb (Chief Librarian, Christchurch Library).
Purchased from Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 1 June 1994.
Entombment after Titian
oil on board
title inscribed, signed and dated ’46
515 x 635mm
Literature
Laurence Simmons, ‘After Titian’, in, The Image Always Has The Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography (Dunmore Press, 2002), pp. 52-67.
Illustrated
Peter Simpson, Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Volume 1 1919-1959 (Auckland University Press, 2019), p. 111.
Laurence Simmons, The Image Always Has The Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography (Dunmore Press, 2002), p. 66.
Reference
Colin McCahon Database (www.mccahon.co.nz) CM001089.
Exhibited
‘Colin McCahon: Exhibition of Paintings’, Wellington Public Library, 2 February - 21 February 1948.
‘McCahon and Woollaston’, Helen Hitchings Gallery, Wellington, 30 July - 5 August 1949.
‘McCahon Religions Works: 1946-1952’, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, March 1975.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to R.C Lamb (Chief Librarian, Christchurch Library).
Purchased from Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 1 June 1994.
