Past Catalogue | Night One: Australian & International Fine Art & Sculpture | Date: 21 September, 2016

Lot 45
Africa - Seated Beggar 1963
oil on composition board
121.5 x 152.0 cm

signed with initial lower left: N
dated lower right: 20/1/63
signed, dated and inscribed verso: 20/1/63/ Nolan/ AFRICA/ Rimbaud poem/ "O unspeakable [illeg.]"/ Seated Beggar

Labels:

Sidney Nolan Estate no.161

Provenance:

Lady Mary Nolan, United Kingdom
Company collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 20
Private collection, Queensland

Literature:

Sidney Nolan: African Journey, Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 1963, p.4 (illus.) Brookner, A., 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London', The Burlington Magazine, London, vol.105, no.723, June 1963, p.288, fig.43 (illus.) Gosling, N., 'Sidney Nolan on Safari', The Observer, London, 12 May 1963, p.28 Whitlet, G., 'May Day For Moderns' , Studio, July 1963, vol.166, no.843, p.11

Exhibited:

Sidney Nolan: African Journey, Marlborough Gallery, London, May - June 1963, cat.5 (label attached verso, stock no.SN59) Sidney Nolan: African Journey, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 19 November 1986 - 1 February 1987, cat.23 Nolan's African Journey, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 17 October - 1 December 1991, cat.11

Estimate
A$40,000
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A$50,000
Hammer Price + BP A$47,864.00