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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  May 2017 Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2017 ~ 10am (NZ time) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 320
  02 May 2017 ~ 5.00pm (NZ time) Session 2: Lots 350 - 764
• Lot #:
  668
• Lot Description:
  Attributed to Colin McCahon
  A painted coffee table
  880 x 865 x 510
  Apparently one of a number from the Auckland Public Library repurposed for the Auckland City Art Gallery cafe, c.1961. Oral histories report ten or twelve of these tables in the gallery cafe.
• Provenance:
  Our octogenarian vendor purchased this from Rodney Kirk Smith at the Barry Lett Gallery in the 1960s or '70s.
• Notes:
  Two tables are recorded on the McCahon database (cm000603 offered at Webb's in 2001 estimated at $15,000-$20,000 and cm000338 offered at Webb's in 2000 from a private collection had been gifted by the artist to the owners c.1981, estimated at $25,000 - $35,000); another not listed on the database sold at Webb's in 2005 for $3938.
• Estimate:
  NZ$2,500 - 2,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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