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Sidney Nolan (1917–1992), born in Melbourne, was a major figure in twentieth-century Australian art. Beginning in commercial drawing, he became associated with John and Sunday Reed and the modernist circle around Heide. He developed a free pictorial language nourished by landscape, reading and historical narratives. The Ned Kelly series, made in 1946–1947, became one of the best-known bodies of work within his extensive production.
Nolan transformed the outlaw’s story into a sequence of images in which character and landscape interact. Other cycles address Burke and Wills, Eliza Fraser or Gallipoli. Although later based abroad, he continued returning to Australian places and legends. His compositions unite narrative, memory and invention without becoming straightforward documentary illustration. National history becomes material that remains open to individual interpretation and imaginative reconstruction.
This profile brings together identity references for Sidney Nolan and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Mixed media on paper
"Kelly"
technique mixte sur papier
Catalogue period : 2018-06-20
Published result : 3800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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