Rudolph John Komon MBE (21 June 1908 – 27 October 1982) was a Viennese–born Czech–Australian art dealer, gallery director, benefactor and wine connoisseur.
After school he was a journalist for a Czech language newspaper, and in 1938 he moved to Czechoslovakia itself and joined the resistance, while ostensibly engaged in journalism and art dealership.
He opened an antique store in Waverley,[1] then the Rudy Komon Art Gallery in Paddington, in the site of a former liquor shop at 124 Jersey Road.
Komon introduced European marketing practices to Australia, such as paying artists a wage in return for the right to sell their work,[1] and significantly assisted the budding careers of painters such as Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Judy Cassab, Robert Dickerson, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Leonard French, Sidney Nolan, Clifton Pugh, Jon Molvig, John Olsen, Fred Williams and Brett Whiteley.
A plaque commemorating Rudy Komon's life was installed at the site of his art gallery at 124 Jersey Road, Paddington by Woollahra Municipal Council.