Sidney Nolan 1917-1992 RAM CAUGHT IN FLOOD 1955

• Lot Sold $250,000 (Hammer Price)
• $300,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

oil and enamel paint on composition board
signed and dated 'N 55;' lower centre
dated and inscribed 'RAM CAUGHT / IN FLOOD / 20 / 3 / 55' on verso
106.3 X 89.2CM

PROVENANCE
Purchased by Lady Peter Norton, London, through The Redfern Gallery, London, on 4 May 1955, until October 1955
Mrs Cynthia Nolan, London
By descent
Private Collection

EXHIBITED
Sidney Nolan, The Redfern Gallery, London, 3-28 May 1955, no. 35, (150 gns)
Contemporary British Painting & Sculpture, Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, 29 May - 29 June 1956, no. 25, 200 gns
Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 12 June - 31 July 1957, no. 59, illustrated
Sidney Nolan: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, tour, 1957, no. 14, illustrated
50 Years of Modern Art, Heysel, Brussels, 17 April - 21 July 1958, no. 240, 'Ram After the Flood'
Il Documenta '59, Kassel, 11 July - 11 October 1959, no. 1, 'Ram Caught in the Flood'
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. 48, 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. 75, 'Ram Caught in Tree', illustrated
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Arts Centre, New Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, 21 February - 18 April 1970, no. 32, 'Ram Caught in Tree', illustrated
Sidney Nolan: Gemälde und Druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, 15 May - 27 June 1971, no. 222, 'Ram Caught in the Tree', illustrated
Sidney Nolan: Retrospective Exhibition, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 19 June - 5 July 1973, no. 30, 'Ram Caught in the Tree', illustrated
Sidney Nolan, Marlborough Galerie AG, Zürich, October - November 1973, no. 6, 'Ram Caught in Tree', illustrated
On loan to Sheffield City Museum and Art Gallery. Sheffield
Sidney Nolan: Desert and Drought, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 6 June - 17 August 2003, no. 75, illustrated

LITERATURE
Art, London, 12 May 1955 Alleyne Zander, 'Sidney Nolan', Studio, London, September 1955, p. 86 (illustrated) The Illustrated London News, London, 7 April 1956, p. 222 (illustrated)
J.P.H. 'Sidney Nolan', Quadrum: International Magazine of Modern Art, Brussells, November 1956, pp. 178, 179 (illustrated)
Emile Langui, 50 Years of Modern Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1959, pp. 238 (illustrated), 321
Kenneth Clark, Colin MacInnes and Bryan Robertson, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961, p. 109 (illustrated)
Alan Moorehead, 'Artist from the outback', Horizon, New York, September 1962, p. 96 (illustrated)
John Rothenstein, British Art Since 1960: An Anthology, Phaidon Press, London, 1962, plate 121, 'Ram Caught in a Flood'
Donald Finley, Modern Australian Painting, Beaverbrook Newspapers, London, 1963, p. 20 (illustrated)
John Reed (ed.), New Painting 1952-62, Longmans, London, 1963, p. 7 (illustrated)
Brian Adams, Sidney Nolan: Such is Life, Century Hutchinson Australia, Hawthorn, Victoria, 1987, p. 123 (illustrated), 'Ram Caught in Tree'
T.G. Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 2002, pp. 130 (illustrated), 131
Geoffrey Smith, Sidney Nolan: Desert and Drought, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 101, 125 (illustrated), 154