Lot #058
French Bay
Oil on board
62.7 x 42.8cm
Estimate NZ$100,000 – NZ$200,000
Signed & dated 1956
Auction Details
Literature
Otitori, French Bay was a short distance from the artist’s home and he chose it as the subject for a number of his works. Between 1953 and 1960 Colin McCahon, (seated left) and his family, lived in this small,weather-board house set among kauri trees and native bush in the Titirangi hills overlooking the bay. The bush setting inspired some of his painting, including a large mural in the living room. In the early 2000s the home was purchased and preserved by the McCahon House Trust as an artists’ residency and the McCahon House Museum.
Exhibited
ILLUSTRATED pl. 38 Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years 1953 - 1959, Auckland University Press, 2007
Provenance
Collection of Mr and Mrs Russell Auckland Private Collection, UK
Lot #058
French Bay
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