ALBERT TUCKER
1914-1999

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

ALBERT TUCKER

1914-1999
Sidney Nolan 1983

synthetic polymer paint on composition board
signed 'Tucker' lower right; dated and inscribed 'SIDNEY NOLAN / 1983' verso
60 x 76 cm

• Lot Sold $80,000 (Hammer Price)
• $97,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
Private Collection, acquired from the above in August 1987
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 7 May 2007, lot 36, 'Portrait of Sidney Nolan', illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Faces I Have Met: Albert Tucker, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 16 April - May 1985, no. 17, illustrated
Faces I Have Met: Albert Tucker, Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide, 24 July - 19 August 1987, no. 6 (label verso)
On loan to the Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, December 1987 - December 1989
On loan to the Sale Regional Arts Centre, Sale, Victoria, 1991-2007

Literature

Albert Tucker and James Mollison, Albert Tucker: Faces I Have Met, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 1985, p. 16 (illustrated)
Anthony Clarke, 'Albert Tucker's People', The Age, Melbourne, 13 April 1985, Saturday Extra, p. 3 (illustrated)
Gary Catalano, 'Faces Tucker Has Met', The Age, Melbourne, 17 April 1985 (illustrated)
Ronald Millar, 'An Intimate View of Old Friends', The Herald, Melbourne, 18 April 1985 (illustrated)
Robert Rooney, 'Tucker Faces Up to Old Age in Soap Opera', The Australian, Sydney, 26 April 1985, p. 10 (illustrated)
Elizabeth Butel, 'The Self-purging of an Artist', The National Times, 26 April - 2 May 1985, p. 3 (illustrated)
Leigh Astbury, ''Faces I Have Met' - Tucker's Portrait of an Era', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 23, No. 1, Summer 1985, p. 176
Richard Haese, 'Albert Tucker', Overland, Melbourne, December 1985 (illustrated)
Albert Tucker: Faces I Have Met, Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1986, p. 26 (illustrated)