SIDNEY NOLAN

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 AUD

bidding is closed

Description

Sidney Nolan
ANIMAL IN THE SWAMP
Signed with initial lower left; bears artist's name and title on label on the reverse
Ripolin enamel on composition board
151.5 by 124 cm
Painted in 1958

Provenance

Kim Bonython by 1964
Sydney County Council by 1967
Corporate collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Sidney Nolan, Durlacher Bros., New York, October - November 1958
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, 22 November - 17 December 1967; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 January - 4 February 1968, cat. 91

Literature

'In the galleries', Arts (New York), vol. 33, November 1958, p. 57
'Reviews and previews', Art News (New York), vol. 57, no. 7, November 1958, p. 14 (illus.)
Max Harris, 'The art collectors 1: Kim Bonython', Art and Australia, vol. 1 no. 4, February 1964, p. 226 (illus.)

Condition

Overall good original condition. No evidence of visable defects or retouchings.
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