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CL189-132Sydney Opera House Festival
Sydney Opera House Festival
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Sydney Opera House Festival , 1973, by Poster Artist, John Coburn (Australian, 1925-2006).
Colour lithograph, 36.5 x 22.8cm. Minor crazing to edges. Linen-backed.
Text continues "Curtain rises 20th October 1973. Poster design based on the Sun Curtain by John Coburn in the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Published by the NSW Dept of Tourism and printed in Australia by Offset Alpine Printing, Syd."
This poster, commemorating the opening of the Sydney Opera House, "is one of, if not the first produced, to feature the building as a significant graphic icon...When Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, Coburn's Curtain of the Sun [tapestry] was hung in the proscenium of the Opera Theatre. (The Curtain of the Moon similarly hung in the Drama Theatre.) The curtains were commissioned in 1970 and woven in Aubusson, France. They are regarded as major works by this leading Australian painter." Ref: MAAS.
Colour lithograph, 36.5 x 22.8cm. Minor crazing to edges. Linen-backed.
Text continues "Curtain rises 20th October 1973. Poster design based on the Sun Curtain by John Coburn in the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Published by the NSW Dept of Tourism and printed in Australia by Offset Alpine Printing, Syd."
This poster, commemorating the opening of the Sydney Opera House, "is one of, if not the first produced, to feature the building as a significant graphic icon...When Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, Coburn's Curtain of the Sun [tapestry] was hung in the proscenium of the Opera Theatre. (The Curtain of the Moon similarly hung in the Drama Theatre.) The curtains were commissioned in 1970 and woven in Aubusson, France. They are regarded as major works by this leading Australian painter." Ref: MAAS.
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