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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sir Sidney Nolan Works from the Estate of Lady Nolan, Part III
• Sale Date:
  24 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  92
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  (1917 - 1992)
  The Cuckold Kills the Lover, 1966
  oil on canvas
  153.0 x 122.0cm (60 1/4 x 48 1/16in).
  initialled lower right: 'N'; signed dated and inscribed verso: 'Nolan / 8th Jan 1966 / Juvenal-Lowell / "The cuckold kills the lover etc / mullet"'
  RELATED WORKS: The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1966, oil on canvas, three panels, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Inferno, 1966, oil on canvas, nine panels, on loan to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, see T.G. Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 2002, pp. 234–237 (illus.)
• Provenance:
  Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992; Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016; The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
• Exhibited:
  Sidney Nolan: oeuvres d'un grand peintre Australien, Australian Embassy, Paris, 16 June - 28 July 1978, cat. 27; Possibly, Waddington Gallery, London (label attached verso)
• Notes:
  While living at the Chelsea Hotel, New York in 1966, Nolan became a close friend of Robert Lowell, one of America's greatest post-War poets. Both men drew upon mythology for their themes and worked collaboratively on several projects.
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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