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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JINX NOLAN, BOSTON

SIDNEY NOLAN
1917-1992

In Town 1948

$300,000–500,000

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© Jinx Nolan

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JINX NOLAN, BOSTON

SIDNEY NOLAN

1917-1992
In Town 1948

enamel paint on composition board
signed, dated and inscribed 'for Cynthia / Christmas / 22-11-48 / Nolan' lower right
91.5 x 75 cm

  • Lot Sold $400,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $490,909 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Sidney Nolan, Sydney
Cynthia Nolan, Sydney, acquired from the above in December 1948
Jinx Nolan, Boston, acquired from the above in 1976

Exhibited

Sidney Nolan: Exhibition of Queensland Outback Paintings, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 8-22 March 1949, no. 26
Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 13
Sidney Nolan: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, tour, 1957, no. 4
Sidney Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 March - 6 May 1961; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 13 May - 3 June 1961; Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 10 June - 1 July 1961; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 8-29 July 1961; City Art Gallery, Bristol, 5-26 August 1961; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2-23 September 1961; Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh, 30 September - 28 October 1961; City Art Gallery, Wakefield, 4-28 November 1961, no. 38
Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 27 March - 9 April 2017, no. 12, illustrated

Literature

Marie Seton, 'Sidney Nolan - An Artist of the Antipodes', The Painter and Sculptor, London, Summer 1959, p. 17 (illustrated)
Geoffrey Smith, Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 2017, pp. 28, 29 (illustrated)

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