SIR SIDNEY ROBERT NOLAN, O.M., R.A. (1917-1992)

Name: New Guinea Series: Central Australia
Brand: SIR SIDNEY ROBERT NOLAN, O.M., R.A. (1917-1992)
Price: 4500.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 5,625

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Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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New Guinea Series: Central Australia

SIR SIDNEY ROBERT NOLAN, O.M., R.A. (1917-1992)

Price Realised GBP 5,625

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

Price Realised GBP 5,625

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan, O.M., R.A. (1917-1992)
New Guinea Series: Central Australia
signed 'Nolan' (lower right), signed, inscribed and dated 'Nolan / Central Australia / 1968' on the reverse
ripolin on paper
20½ x 30in. (52 x 76cm.)

Provenance:
with Marlborough Fine Art, London (stock 9054).
with Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg.
Private collection, England.

Exhibited:
Johannesburg, Pieter Wenning Gallery, Sidney Nolan Paintings, April 1976, (probably) cat.18.

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Lot Essay

'I was fascinated by the objectivity of the arid endless land. The land stated its terms and left you to your own adjustment. Only the Aborigines were relaxed in an environment that rejected the white man ... Someone has called The Centre a beautiful country to look at but terrible to touch. It's true. The distances, colour, and light of The Centre are a challenge to any artist, and the rules of European painting don't seem to apply out there ... when I started to paint, I felt I was striving for something completely new. Now I feel this is presumption on my part. Today I realised I'm a worker in a very old craft. I feel that my main job is to relate a description of a new environment to an old tradition ...' (Sidney Nolan quoted in R. McKie, 'Strange Chick from an Irish hatching', , 10 June 1950 in N. Underhill (ed.) , Melbourne, 2007, p.295)

Nolan returned to the outback from August to October 1968, while working on a documentary with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.