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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Nov 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  9
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  In Town 1948
  enamel paint on composition board
  91.5 x 75 cm
  signed, dated and inscribed 'for Cynthia / Christmas / 22-11-48 / Nolan' lower right
  EXHIBITED: Sidney Nolan: Exhibition of Queensland Outback Paintings, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 8-22 March 1949, no. 26; Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 13; Sidney Nolan: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, tour, 1957, no. 4; Sidney Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 March - 6 May 1961; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 13 May - 3 June 1961; Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 10 June - 1 July 1961; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 8-29 July 1961; City Art Gallery, Bristol, 5-26 August 1961; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2-23 September 1961; Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh, 30 September - 28 October 1961; City Art Gallery, Wakefield, 4-28 November 1961, no. 38; Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 27 March - 9 April 2017, no. 12, illustrated
• Provenance:
  Sidney Nolan, Sydney; Cynthia Nolan, Sydney, acquired from the above in December 1948; Jinx Nolan, Boston, acquired from the above in 1976
• References:
  Marie Seton, 'Sidney Nolan - An Artist of the Antipodes', The Painter and Sculptor, London, Summer 1959, p. 17 (illustrated); Geoffrey Smith, Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 2017, pp. 28, 29 (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$300,000 - 500,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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