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Lucio's: Food, Art & Friendship

Lot 129

John Coburn
(1925-2006)
Dark Forest, 2002

21 March 2021, 14:00 AEDT

Melbourne, Armadale

Sold for AU$46,740 inc. premium

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John Coburn (1925-2006)

Dark Forest, 2002
signed lower right: 'Coburn'
titled, signed and dated verso: 'DARK FOREST / JOHN COBURN / OIL / 2002'
oil on canvas
120.0 x 100.0cm (47 1/4 x 39 3/8in).

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PROVENANCE
Australian Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
The Lucio's Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED
Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 22 October - 16 November 2002, cat. 8

Lucio's restaurant was formerly The Hungry Horse, and in 1962 Betty O'Neill asked me to lunch there. She told me she was opening an art gallery above the restaurant to be called The Hungry Horse Gallery. I agreed to show with her, and her opening exhibition included works by John Olsen, Colin Lanceley, Robert Hughes, Charles Reddington, Frank Hodgkinson, Carl Plate, Robert Klippel, Emanuel Raft and myself. We were photographed together standing on the front balcony of the gallery and the photograph became an icon of Sydney art of the 1960s. A copy of it hangs in Lucio's restaurant along with works by many of the original Hungry Horse group, plus many by younger artists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Lucio's has become, since Lucio took over fifteen years ago, the artists' restaurant of Sydney.

John Coburn, 1999
The Art of Food at Lucio's

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