BARRIER REEF, 1976

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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JOHN COBURN

(1925 - 2006)
BARRIER REEF, 1976

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

60.0 x 75.0 cm

signed lower right: Coburn
inscribed with title verso: BARRIER REEF

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Sold for $76,091 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney 
Shapiro, Sydney, 3 December 2002, lot 83
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above 

Exhibited

Recent Paintings, Prints and Tapestries – John Coburn, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 8 – 22 June 1976, cat. 11
Essential, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 8 May – 5 September 2010
IMPACT, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1 December 2012 – 21 April 2013
Last Acquisitions, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2 April – 10 July 2016
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Literature

Amadio, N., John Coburn Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1988, p. 199
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 122 (illus.), 216