Noel Counihan
(1913 - 1986)
MINER IN YELLOW HELMET, 1979
oil on canvas
83.0 x 83.0 cm
95.5 x 95.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated lower left: Counihan ‘79
Estimate:
$12,000 - $15,000
Sold:
$9,818 (inc. BP)
© Estate of Noel Counihan. Licensed by Copyright Agency 2022
lot details
95.5 x 95.5 cm (frame)
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso, stock no. 4889)
Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 April 1991, lot 125 (as ‘Miner’)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Noel Counihan, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, April 1979
Noel Counihan, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 18 August – 12 September 1979, cat. 9
Figures & Landscapes. Curated works from The Cbus Collection of Australian Art and the Latrobe Regional Gallery Permanent Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 16 December 2017 – 11 March 2018
on long term loan to Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Literature
Dunstan, K., ‘Passionate Paintings by an Old Commo’, The Bulletin, Sydney, vol. 100, no. 5157, 24 April 1979, p. 74
Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, vol. 17, no. 1, September 1979, p. 44 (illus.)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 17, 216