NZ & International Fine Art - Part One Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 6:00 PM start

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Colin McCahon - Singing woman on pink ground

Realised: $400,000 plus premium

Lot Details

Colin McCahon (1919-87) Singing woman on pink ground oil on canvas Signed and dated ‘McCahon July ‘55’ (upper right) 59.9 x 49.5cm Provenance purchased by the current vendor from Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, 1966 Private collection, Canterbury Exhibited 1955 The Group, Christchurch 1963 A Retrospective Exhibition: M T Woollaston – Colin McCahon, Auckland City Art Gallery, 20 May 1963 – 4 June 1963 1972 Colin McCahon: A Survey Exhibition, Auckland City Art Gallery, 7 March 1972 – 23 April 1972 2016 Leo Bensemann & Friends: Portraiture and The Group, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington 24 November 2016 – 26 March 2017 Literature Colin McCahon; A Survey Exhibition Catalogue 1972 cat. no. 22. (b/w illustration) Gordon Brown, Colin McCahon: Artist New Edition (Reed Auckland 1993) pl. 26., p. 48. (b/w illustration), p. 82. New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Leo Bensemann & Friends: Portraiture and the Group (Wellington 2016) p.22-3 p.37 (colour illustration) Peter Simpson, Colin McCahon There is Only One Direction Vol. 1 1919-1959 (Auckland University Press 2019) p. 215, 242. (colour illustration) The Press, Your Weekend, 12 October 2019 (cover illustration) Colin McCahon Online Catalogue record no. cm0009736 See PDF for catalogue essay by Peter Simpson