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
Sidney Nolan Estate no.161
Lady Mary Nolan, United Kingdom
Company collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 20
Private collection, Queensland
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
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