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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 #:
  36
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  Octopus with Silken Stare!, c.1942
  ink on paper
  20.0 x 14.5cm (7 7/8 x 5 11/16in).
  titled lower right: 'Octopus with silken stare!'
  RELATED WORK: Macassar Sea, 1942, ink on paper, 18.4 x 24.0cm, illustrated in Richard Haese, Sidney Nolan: The City and the Plain, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983 p. 25
• Provenance:
  Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992; Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016; The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
• Notes:
  The title is taken from a line in Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont (nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, 1846-1870) whose prose-poems heavily influenced many European artists of the 1930s including Salvador Dali and other Surrealists.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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