SIDNEY NOLAN
1917-1992

Savill: The Private and The Public
The Denis Savill Collection of Australian Art

SIDNEY NOLAN

1917-1992
River-Bank 1964

oil on composition board
signed and dated 'N - / 27 Oct / 1964 / Nolan' lower left; signed and dated '27 OCT. 1964 / Nolan' verso
122 x 153 cm

• Lot Sold $1,350,000 (Hammer Price)
• $1,647,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, Sydney
Mr Denis Savill, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Sidney Nolan, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 5-22 May 1965, no. 16
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. 134 (label verso)
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Arts Centre, New Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, 21 February - 18 April 1970, no. 42
Sidney Nolan: Gemalde und Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, 15 May - 27 June 1971, no. 30, illustrated
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 19 June - 5 July 1973, no. 43, illustrated
Sidney Nolan, Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich, October - November 1973, no. 8, illustrated
English Contrasts: Peintres et Sculpteurs Anglais, Artcurial, Centre d'art plastique contemporair, Paris, September - November 1984 (label verso)
Recalling the Fifties: British Painting and Sculpture 1950 - 60, Arts Council of Great Britain, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2 February - 3 March 1985 (label verso)
Unmasked: Sidney Nolan & Ned Kelly 1950-1990, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 11 November 2006 - 4 March 2007, illustrated
Sidney Nolan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 November 2007- 3 February 2008, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 February - 18 May 2008, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 6 June - 31 August 2008, no. 98, illustrated
Modern Masters, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 9 May - 5 June 2012, no. 6, illustrated
Imagining Ned, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 28 March - 28 June 2015
Breaking History: Denis Savill, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 21 October - 13 November 2015, no. 5, illustrated (not for sale)

Literature

Elwyn Lynn, Sidney Nolan: Myth and Imagery, Macmillan, London, 1967, plate 65, pp. 47, 55, 86 (illustrated)
Werner Kruger, 'Sidney Nolan im Moderna Museet Stockholm', Studio International, London, Vol. 20, Nos. 4-5, April - May 1976, (illustrated)
Kendrah Morgan and Damian Smith, Unmasked: Sidney Nolan & Ned Kelly 1950-1990, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2006, pp. 29, 38 (illustrated), 61
Barry Pearce, Sidney Nolan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 203 (illustrated), 238