Lot 26

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Pinton Manufacture de Tapiesseries d'Aubusson, France (label verso)
The National Australia Bank Art Collection

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, p. 120 (illus.)
"John Coburn produced over eighteen designs for tapestries woven by Pinton Manufacture de Tapiesseries d'Aubusson, France, including the Creation Series.
From 1969 to 1972 Coburn lived in France where he designed three commissioned tapestries for Aubusson and he supervised the Sydney Opera House curtains. These works, influenced by Matisse's late collage works and the tapestries of Lucrat, show Coburn's strong sense of colour and his use of simplified geometric designs evolved from plant forms and childhood memories of the luxuriant tropical vegetation of Northern Queensland."
(edited excerpt, p. 120)