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Sidney Nolan
Australian, 1917-1992

Sidney Nolan Australian, 1917-1992

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sidney Nolan, The Art of War?, 1955

Sidney Nolan Australian, 1917-1992

The Art of War?, 1955
Felt pen on paper
25.5 x 30.5 cm
Signed, dated and titled verso
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Nolan first studied at the Prahran Technical College in his hometown, Melbourne, and continued at the National Gallery School in Sydney, 1934-6. Following his military service during World War II...
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Nolan first studied at the Prahran Technical College in his hometown, Melbourne, and continued at the National Gallery School in Sydney, 1934-6. Following his military service during World War II in the Australian Army, Nolan worked as a designer and an illustrator, emerging as a full-time painter in Sydney at the beginning of the 1950's. Shortly afterwards, Nolan settled in England. Subsequent to his first one-man show at his Melbourne Studio in 1951, Nolan went on to exhibit in London at the Redfern Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, Tate Gallery and ICA and in Oxford at the Ashmolean Museum.Nolan has been called a painter's painter, whose work often took the form of a personal diary. He was able to work intensively over short periods and was noted for series of pictures with a single theme, such as the Ned Kelly paintings and drawings, amongst his most memorable images.
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Provenance

Private collection, London.

Literature

Two other drawings from the same series are illustrated in CLARK, Kenneth, Colin MacINNES and Bryan ROBERTSON, Sidney Nolan, London, 1961, ill. pl. 106 and 107.

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