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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  23 Aug 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  22
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  Ned Kelly: Wounded Bushranger 1955
  oil and enamel paint on composition board
  71 x 91.5 cm
  signed 'N -' lower centre; dated and inscribed '25 / 1 / 55 / N / (KELLY SERIES) / WOUNDED BUSHRANGER' verso
  EXHIBITED: "Sidney Nolan", The Redfern Gallery, London, 3-28 May 1955, no. 10, 'Wounded Outlaw', (95 gns);"Sidney Nolan", Durlacher Bros, New York, 27 March - 21 April 1956, no. 8;"Sidney Nolan", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 56;"Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends", Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 7 March - 8 April 2001, no. 16, illustrated;"Masterpieces of Modern Australian Art", Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 29 May - 1 June 2008, no. 15;"Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections", Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 27 March - 9 April 2017, no. 20, illustrated
• Provenance:
  Sidney Nolan, London; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Mr John D.F. Green, London, acquired from the above in 1957 for £150.0.0, until; Australian and International Paintings, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 22 August 2000, lot 145, illustrated; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above; Private Collection, acquired from the above
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Robert M. Coates, 'The Art Galleries: Antipodes', "New Yorker", New York, 7 April 1956, p. 122; Kenneth Clark, Colin MacInnes and Bryan Robertson, "Sidney Nolan", Thames and Hudson, London, 1961, plate 60, pp. 110, 121 (illustrated); "Look", Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Sydney, October 2000, p. 48 (illustrated); Geoffrey Smith, "Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections", Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 2017, pp. 44, 45 (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$750,000 - 950,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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