Sidney Nolan 1917-1992 ESCAPED CONVICT 1948

• Lot Sold $390,000 (Hammer Price)
• $468,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

enamel paint on composition board
signed and dated lower right
91.1 X 121.4CM

PROVENANCE
Mrs Cynthia Nolan, London
By descent
Private Collection

EXHIBITED
Sidney Nolan: Exhibition of Queensland Outback Paintings, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 8-22 March 1949, no. 7
Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 3
Sidney Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 1961 and tour to Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Wakefield, no. 41, illustrated
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Arts Centre, New Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, 21 February - 18 April 1970, no. 25
Sidney Nolan: Gemalde und Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, 15 May - 27 June 1971, no. 18
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 19 June - 5 July 1973, no. 26 Sidney Nolan, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, January - March 1976, no. 23

LITERATURE
John Douglas Pringle, Australian Paintings Today, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 68 (illustrated)