Still life for the play Professor Mamlock.

Still life for the play Professor Mamlock by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.

Still life.

1939

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 73/83

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13 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Still life. oil Sgd & dated Colin McCahon 1940 [sic] in mount 28 x 30 1/2. Note by R.N. O’Reilly on back of photograph. 'Professor Mamlock however was performed about August 1939 - just before the war' I am pretty sure it was produced after the was and was amazed that we went on in the R.S.A. Hall in Dunedin. This couyld be checked."

Lower right (l.r.): Colin McCahon 1939. Painted as part of a stage set.

715 x 775 mm

distemper on gesso on plywood

Estate of Mrs E.M. McCahon, Geraldine.

John & Ethel McCahon Bequest, 1973.