Sidney Nolan - Burke and wills expedition Place of birth: Sidney, Australia Australian born, Sydney Nolan taught himself to paint and took it
Sidney Nolan "Ned Kelly" - "Many of my best subjects have resulted from looking back on past journeys." - Sidney Nolan If you've ever visited the chain restaurant Outback Steakhouse, while you were waiting for your Bloomin' Onion to be served, you may have noticed some unusual decor on the walls. The location I went…
'Of course Rimbaud … at a certain point … started to push further and to attribute musical sounds to the structure of his words … and all painters and poets I think try and aspire to music in that sense ...
Discover all artworks by Sidney Nolan (Australian, 1917 - 1992) on MutualArt along with auctions, exhibitions and articles featuring the artist.
'Escaped convict' is part of a second series based on the legend of Mrs Fraser, which had captivated Nolan following his first visit to Fraser Island, Queensland in 1947. In the legend, the brig 'Stirling Castle' ran aground off Great ...
Sidney Nolan with Kelly Mask 1987 Michel Lawrence Photographic print Purchased by the ER White Club, Trinity College, 1997 image reproduced courtesy of the artist Click here to visit the artist's Flickr
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A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan.
During a visit to the John Oxley Library in Brisbane in 1947, Sidney Nolan became intrigued by the story and mythology of Englishwoman Eliza Fraser. Eliza was on board her husband’s brig, the Stirling Castle, when it was shipwrecked off the Queensland coast in 1836. The survivors, including Eliza and her husband James, were washed …
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'Hare in trap' was painted between Sidney Nolan’s iconic Wimmera landscapes and St Kilda paintings of 1940–45, and the first Ned Kelly series 1946–47. To varying degrees it reflects the growing sense of unease Nolan experienced while staying at the ...
View Kelly and Horse (1964) By Nolan Sidney; oil on board; 122.0 x 122.0 cm; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
Read "Sidney Nolan A Life" by Underhill available from Rakuten Kobo. Digging through the myths around Australia’s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-pr...
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Art market auction sales from the 1970s to 2025 for 10,337 works by artist Sidney Robert Nolan (1917-92), and values for over 18,000 other Australian and New Zealand artists.
When Mary Nolan died last year, she left behind hundreds of works by her late husband, whose estate she had managed since his death 25 years ago
The lost Wimmera years of Sidney Nolan 1942–44 | NGV
Let’s dive into Nolan’s life and work with these five fascinating facts about the Australian icon.
Nolan created several works depicting Ned Kelly on his horse, all of them different. In the Foundation Collection, there are two paintings created a year apart that share the same title. In the earlier painting, created in 1945, Kelly appears behind a shroud of saplings, and notably his back is to the viewer. There is a sense of comic absurdity as we see the bushranger, weighed down by his home-made armour, struggling to gain a foothold to mount his horse which patiently stands by. In the 1946 version of this work, Kelly is significantly more confident. He is shown astride his horse with his gun poised as he fearlessly stares at the viewer. In contrast to the earlier work, here Kelly and the horse have been thrust into the central foreground. Stylistically both the forms and rendering of the landscape are bolder and more hard-edged compared to the earlier work. This painting emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between Kelly, his horse, and the Australian landscape which is reflected through the cut-out eyes of the horse and the aperture in Kelly’s black helmet. KELLY SERIES The Ned Kelly paintings are Nolan’s most celebrated series, and they established his reputation as one of Australia’s most prominent artists. Created between 1945 and 1947, the larger series includes approximately 45 works, several of which share the same title. They focus on the story of Ned Kelly, Australia’s most renowned bushranger who was executed by hanging in Victoria in 1880. Whether Kelly was a hero or villain will continue to be debated but he has nonetheless become a significant figure in Australian folklore. Nolan was interested in the enduring power of the Kelly myth, and in his paintings Kelly is cast in various guises – as a loyal family member or an armed criminal – thus emphasising his human and individual traits. Nolan, like Kelly, was also the son of Irish immigrants, and it has been suggested that he empathised with Kelly’s anti-establishment stand, demonstrated by his rejection of formal art training and the bohemian lifestyle he led as he painted this series at Heide. Nolan admits that there is an autobiographical element to the Kelly paintings. He states: ‘Really the Kelly paintings are secretly about myself… From 1945 to 1947 there were emotional and complicated events in my own life. It’s an inner history of my own emotions...’. (Lynn & Semler, 1989). Reference: Lynn, Elwyn and Bruce Semler, Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly: Paintings and drawings from the collection of the Australian National Gallery, rev. ed., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1989, p.8. FOUNDATION COLLECTION The Foundation Collection comprises 24 paintings which are the first of several donations made by the artist, Sir Sidney Nolan to the Australian Government from the mid-1970s. Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is one of Australia’s most widely acclaimed artists. He is best known for his iconic Kelly paintings which are based on the legendary story of Ned Kelly, Australia’s most renowned bushranger. The Foundation Collection comprises 15 paintings from the artist’s first Kelly series produced during the mid-1940s. It also encompasses paintings from the St Kilda and Burke and Wills series, and inspired by Nolan’s travels around Central Australia. Each of the paintings in this collection reflects the artist’s enduring interest in Australia’s landscape, history, and identity.
