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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  20 Nov 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  21
• Lot Description:
  Sidney Nolan
  1917-1992
  Ned Kelly: Crossing The River 1955
  enamel paint on composition board
  71 x 91.5cm
  signed 'N' lower left; signed, dated and inscribed 'CROSSING THE RIVER / (NED KELLY SERIES) / KELLY CROSSING / FLOODED RIVER / MARCH 1955 / NOLAN' verso
• Provenance:
  Mrs Cynthia Nolan, United Kingdom; By descent; Private Collection
• Exhibited:
  Sidney Nolan, The Redfern Gallery, London, 3-28 May 1955, no. 9, (95 gns); Sidney Nolan, Durlacher Bros, New York, 27 March - 21 April 1956, no. 16; Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, no. 57; Sidney Nolan: An Exhibition of Paintings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, tour, 1957, no. 13; Sidney Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 1961, and tour to Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Wakefield, no. 47, illustrated; Sidney Nolan: Re
• References:
  Gamer than Ned Kelly', Australian Women's Weekly, Sydney, 6 July 1955, p. 25 (illustrated); Kenneth Clark, Colin MacInnes and Bryan Robertson, Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961, pp. 110, 120 (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$800,000 - 1,200,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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