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28. SIDNEY NOLAN

Sidney Nolan’s standing as Australia’s pre-eminent modernist painter is unchallenged – a status confirmed most recently by the reception of the major survey exhibition curated by Barry Pearce in 2007 for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. While immensely productive throughout a long career,

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29. GARRY SHEAD

The art historian Sasha Grishin describes Garry Shead as ‘precocious, talented and provocative’; the artist belongs to the generation of figurative painters who rose to prominence in the 1960s – a time when American-inspired abstraction dominated the Sydney art scene. Like his contemporaries

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30. DEL KATHRYN BARTON

Del Kathryn Barton’s art has rapidly come to the attention of both Australian and international audiences over the last decade. Her meteoric rise into the upper stratosphere of Australian art has seen her become one of this country’s most recognisable and collectible artists. In 2017, Barton

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31. TIM STORRIER

Edmund Capon remarks upon the inexplicably Australian sense which Tim Storrier’s paintings evoke, the strong sense of place which is contained within the vocabulary of his paintings, ‘they could not, I believe, have come from any country other than Australia’.1 The sense of space, low horizo

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32. ARTHUR BOYD

Bride Dreaming by a Pool c1960 is a little-known painting from an important period of Arthur Boyd’s career. This sensuously painted work has only recently come to light. It provides a valuable bridge between the first paintings Boyd did on the bride theme in Australia during the 195

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33. BRONWYN OLIVER

Bronwyn Oliver was one of Australia’s most distinctive and important sculptors, with a substantial body of work created in a short career spanning just over twenty years. Stem 2005 is one of Oliver’s later pieces, created for a solo exhibition that she had scheduled at Roslyn Oxley9

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34. JEAN ARP

Jean Arp was a very prominent member of two of Modernism’s most perplexing art movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada, often also called Dadaism, was less a coherent group of artists than a collective of like-minded and disaffected people whose ideas and art were propelled by an abiding disgus

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35. AUGUSTE RODIN

Rodin is one of art history’s best-known sculptors, falling somewhere behind the incomparable Michelangelo in the public mind. This is something that Rodin would certainly have accepted since Michelangelo was the sculptor who he admired above all others.

These introductory comments

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36. BRETT WHITELEY

‘People ask me 'why paint birds?' and I look at them dumbfounded! I’ve got no answer, except that they are the most beautiful creatures’. 1

Birds fuelled Brett Whiteley’s imagination and his love of the natural world. Herons, wrens, rosellas, owls and do

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37. JEFFREY SMART

Jeffrey Smart’s Bus by the Tiber has an exceptional provenance. The painting has been held in the one private collection since its original acquisition and exhibited in both Sydney and London. It has never before been offered at auction.

In addition, there is much to

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