John Coburn is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most distinctive modernist painters, celebrated for his bold, symbolic abstraction and masterful use of colour. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Coburn had begun to consolidate the visual language that would define his mature career—flattened, interlocking shapes, often arranged in rhythmic, almost mosaic-like compositions, imbued with spiritu…

Provenance

Private collection, Moss Vale; Shapiro Auctioneers, Australian and International Art, Sydney, 20 September 2023; Private collection, Sydney