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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sidney Nolan | The Heide Years, 1938-1947
• Sale Date:
  23 Aug 2022 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  20
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  Woman on Beach, St Kilda, 1940
  oil on canvas on board
  30.0 x 38.5cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/16in).
  dated lower right: '1940'
  VERSO: Abstract, c.1938; oil and mixed media on board; inscribed: 'Newcastle'; 30.0 x 38.5cm
• Provenance:
  Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992; Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016; The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
• Exhibited:
  Nolan, Hatton Gallery, University of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Temple Newsam House, Leeds; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; City Art Gallery, Bristol; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh; City Art Gallery, Wakefield, March – November 1961, cat. 8, as Woman on beach
• Notes:
  Nolan recalled later that the tent motif, derived from a poem by William Blake, was in his mind associated with memories of St Kilda and the thrilling mystery of what was happening behind the canvas in the Luna Park sideshows1. Woman on beach, St Kilda shows a woman dressed in red emerging from a moonlit tent pitched beneath the tracks of the Big Dipper. 1 Barry Pearce, 'Nolan's Parallel Universe', in Barry Pearce, ed., Sidney Nolan 1917-1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p. 27
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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