JOHN COBURN
1925-2006

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF J.G.L. INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, MELBOURNE

JOHN COBURN

1925-2006
Prophet 1962

polyvinyl acetate and oil on composition board
signed 'Coburn' lower right; signed, dated and inscribed 'JOHN COBURN "PROPHET" 7/62' verso
183 x 136.5 cm

• Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Rudy Komon, Sydney
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney
J.G.L. Investments Pty Ltd, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 14 July 1984

Exhibited

The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August 1962, no. 3
Australian Painting Today: A Survey of the Past Ten Years, Queensland Art Gallery, 19 September – 20 October 1963, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 7 November – 8 December 1963, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 9 January – 9 February 1964, National Gallery of Victoria, 27 February – 29 March 1964, National Gallery of South Australia, 16 April – 17 May 1964, Western Australian Art Gallery, 4 June – 5 July 1964, no. 8
The Private Collection of Mr and Mrs Rudy Komon, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, 9-21 August 1971, no. 7, 'The Prophet'
The Great Decades of Australian Art: Selected Masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 21 November 1984 – 28 January 1985, illustrated

Literature

Patrick McCaughey, The Great Decades of Australian Art: Selected Masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1984, p. 30 (illustrated)