Sidney Nolan

Prometheus

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sidney Nolan

1917 - 1992

Prometheus

signed Nolan (lower right); also signed Nolan, titled and dated 18 February 68 (on the reverse)

oil and crayon on paper

unframed (sheet): 52 by 76 cm. 20½ by 30 in.

framed: 69 by 94 cm. 27 by 37 in.

Executed in 1968.

We are grateful to Geoffrey Smith for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Phipps and Company Ltd, London, where acquired by the present owner, 15 December 1988

This painting is from a series that Nolan began in the 1950s and continued in the 1960s, inspired by the expedition of Burke & Wills from Cooper's Creek to the Gulf of Carpentania described in Alan Moorehead, Cooper's Creek, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1963.