Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and
reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably
productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the
painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable
'Meldrumites' is one explanation for Colahan's disappearance from
the public gaze. The other has murkier origins in the still
unsolved murder of his girlfriend, Mollie Dean, in 1930. There was
nothing of substance to link Colahan to the brutal murder, but
fevered public speculation cast a depressing shadow for many years
and helped propel him to Europe in 1935. There he stayed for the
rest of his long life. The story of Colahan's personal life is
tantalising in itself—three marriages, five children, numerous
lovers, beautiful houses in England and Italy, portrait painter of
the rich and famous. It was an urbane life. He was a witty,
charming, talented man. This intimate, engaging portrait is indeed
most welcome, and will restore Colahan's life and work to its
rightful place in the history of Australian art.
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