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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sir Sidney Nolan | Selected works from the Estate of Lady Nolan
• Sale Date:
  17 Nov 2021 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  148
• Lot Description:
  
  Dancers, Rite of Spring, c.1962
  mixed media on paper
  52.0 x 63.5cm (20 1/2 x 25in).
  RELATED WORKS: see related works illustrated in Andrew Sayers, Sidney Nolan Drawings, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, pp. 54-55; and T.G. Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 2002, p. 259
• Provenance:
  Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992: Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016; The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
• Notes:
  Twenty-two years after designing the set for the Ballets Russes performance of Icare in Australia, Kenneth MacMillan, the distinguished British choreographer, commissioned Sidney Nolan to design the set and costumes for his new version of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring for the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. The backdrops included a reworking of his iconic 1940 image Boy and the Moon (known as Moonboy) while the costumes emphasised a universal sense of the primitive.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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