Sidney Nolan
1917-1992

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE CYNTHIA NOLAN COLLECTION, UNITED KINGDOM

Sidney Nolan

1917-1992
NED KELLY: CROSSING THE RIVER 1955

enamel paint on composition board
signed 'N' lower left; signed, dated and inscribed 'CROSSING THE RIVER / (NED KELLY SERIES) / KELLY CROSSING / FLOODED RIVER / MARCH 1955 / NOLAN' verso
71 X 91.5CM

• Lot Sold $800,000 (Hammer Price)
• $960,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mrs Cynthia Nolan, United Kingdom By descent Private Collection

Exhibited

Sidney Nolan, The Redfern Gallery, London, 3-28 May 1955, no. 9, (95 gns) Sidney Nolan, Durlacher Bros, New York, 27 March - 21 April 1956, no. 16 Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 57 Sidney Nolan: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, tour, 1957, no. 13 Sidney Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 1961, and tour to Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Wakefield, no. 47, illustrated Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition: Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 September - 29 October 1967, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 November - 17 December 1967, Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 January - 4 February 1968, no. 79 On loan to the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Power Institute of Fine Arts, The University of Sydney, 1974 The Cynthia Nolan Collection of Paintings by Sidney Nolan, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 7-26 July 1975, no. 14

Literature

'Gamer than Ned Kelly', Australian Women's Weekly, Sydney, 6 July 1955, p. 25 (illustrated) Kenneth Clark, Colin MacInnes and Bryan Robertson, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961, pp. 110, 120 (illustrated)