Nolan first addressed the Burke and Wills story as a young artist in 1948, fresh from completing his groundbreaking first Kelly series. He returned to the subject in the early 1960s and again twenty years later, towards the end of his career. The Flogging belongs to the last of these importa

The art works of William Kentridge arise from the inner promptings of humanitarian sentiments. His upbringing in South Africa’s Johannesburg (“that rather desperate provincial city”he later called it) placed him in the uniquely strained situation of seeing social injustice at first hand. Thi

Robert Klippel’s Opus 751 of 1989 is significant for at least three compelling reasons. Firstly, Klippel’s sculptures, especially bronzes, have a deserved “hold” status among discerning collectors and it is uncommon to see them offered at public auction. Secondly, the present work is a fine

This late work by Rosalie Gascoigne was created in 1998, a time when the artist was at the height of her creative powers, and only a year before she passed away at the age of 82. Gascoigne famously rose to prominence later in life than most. She was well into her 50s when she commenced her a

John Olsen is widely acknowledged as being Australia’s greatest living artist. Accolades in later life, including the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1985 (which he first won in 1969), the Sulman Prize for genre painting in 1989, and the Archibald Prize for portraiture in 2007 at the a

Art historian Bernard Smith (1916-2011) observed the changing dynamic of Arthur Boyd’s painting as his career burgeoned from its early stages. ‘Following his social realist phase Boyd turned, about 1943-44 to paintings that embodied figures in landscapes. He continued to use a dark, restrict

Rosalie Gascoigne was an artist who lived and worked in Canberra and her work is strongly informed by the Monaro landscape that surrounds the capital. Gascoigne had a natural facility to bring together elements that speak softly of this place in a way that goes beyond mere literal descriptio

The Sydney artist James Gleeson is justifiably regarded as Australia’s foremost and most consistent exponent of Surrealist art.

Surrealism is an intriguingly complex artistic school of thought that began in Paris in the mid-Twenties and spread throughout the world, even as far

Boyd’s aesthetic relied on change and progress. He tended to work in series where he could direct his focus and immerse himself in a project. The drain caused by the intellectual, emotional and physical effort required to paint had to be balanced and so Boyd adopted a pattern of alternating

Margaret Olley is one of Australia’s most well-renowned painters of the still-life subject, her legacy to Australian art history is significant and her characteristic interior scenes are highly regarded and collected worldwide. Throughout her long and successful career, the still life was th