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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Nov 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  14
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  Desert Bird 1948
  enamel paint on composition board; frame: original, maker unknown, Sydney
  90.2 x 120.7 cm
  signed and dated '23-6-48 / Nolan' lower left; signed and inscribed '"DESERT BIRD" SIDNEY NOLAN 8 WONIORA AVENUE WAHROONGA / CROWS ASH' verso (on frame)
  EXHIBITED: Christmas Exhibition, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1-24 December 1948, no. 19, 35 gns; Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 3 June - 26 July 1987; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 August - 27 September 1987; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 21 October - 29 November 1987; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 15 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, illustrated (label verso); Sidney Nolan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 November 2007 - 3 February 2008; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 February - 18 May 2008; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 6 June - 31 August 2008, no. 46, illustrated; Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 27 March - 9 April 2017, no. 9, illustrated; Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 19 February - 13 June 2022, no. 31, illustrated. REFERENCES: Paul Haefliger, 'Sober Note in Paintings', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 December 1948, p. 5; Harry Tatlock Miller, 'Important Christmas Art Show', The Sun, Sydney, 2 December 1948, p. 13; 'Assorted Painters', The Bulletin, Sydney, 8 December 1948, p. 24; Jane Clark, Sidney Nolan: Landscape and Legends, International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, Sydney, 1987, p. 97 (illustrated); Barry Pearce, Australian Artists, Australian Birds, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1989, p. 110 (illustrated); T.G. Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan, Thames & Hudson, London, 2002, p. 135 (illustrated); Patrick McCaughey (ed.), Bert & Ned: The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006, p. 86 (illustrated); Barry Pearce, Sidney Nolan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 137 (illustrated), 233; Geoffrey Smith, Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 2017, pp. 22, 23 (illustrated); Kendrah Morgan and Nancy Underhill, Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2022, pp. 36 (illustrated), 181 (illustrated)
• Provenance:
  Sidney Nolan, Sydney; Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Dr Roland Wettenhall, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1949; Private Collection, Victoria, by descent from the above
• Estimate:
  A$500,000 - 700,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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