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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 - Lots 1 - 47
  03 May 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 - Lots 48 - 320
• Lot #:
  23
• Lot Description:
  § Sidney Nolan
  (1917-1992)
  Landscape 1960
  oil and polyvinyl acetate on board
  121 x 150.5 cm
  signed and dated verso: Nolan 22 MAY 1960
• Provenance:
  Private collection, London
• Notes:
  From 1954 to 1960 the peripatetic Sidney Nolan embarked on a period of intense travel that took him to Greece, Turkey, Italy and the United States and which brought forth remarkable works as did his later trips to Africa, Antarctica and China. Nolan's fluent style loosened up in these years as he embarked on a series of new themes revealing his capacity to draw on a vast reservoir of lived experience, historical events, literature and poetry, that combined with his own very private interior world of emotion and memory. Landscape 1960 belongs to a group of abstract landscapes, some designated as the landscape of Gallipoli, that relate to Nolan's Gallipoli series, which includes images of Australian soldiers and the landing cove where many were shot and drowned. Researching and remembering this tragic event must have stirred Nolan's personal memories of his brother Raymond, who drowned in an accident when on leave from the army in 1945 at a time when Nolan himself had deserted the army. Landscape 1960 was painted on 22 May 1960 when Nolan had rented an artist's studio in Maida Vale, West London, not long after he and Cynthia Nolan had returned to London after spending an extended period from July 1958 to April 1960 in the United States. Nolan's first-hand experience of the work of American Abstract Expressionist painters undoubtedly intensified the underlying predilection towards abstraction that weaves throughout his work, and which is evident in this painting. This shift was propelled too, by his adoption in 1957 of the new fast drying medium of polyvinyl acetate (PVA) which could be scraped back to reveal certain images against a dark background, as seen in Nolan's dark watery landscapes of 1958 and his Leda and the Swan series (1958-60). Frances Lindsay AM § Indicates that Resale Royalty of 5% will be applied to the hammer price of this work.
• GST:
  Please note GST will be charged on the hammer price
• Estimate:
  A$40,000 - 60,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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