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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 16, 2023 | Deutscher and Hackett | Melbourne | Important Australian + International Fine Art | 4 | $****** - ****** | ESCAPED CONVICT |
paintings
122 x 91.5 cm (48.03 x 36.02 in)
enamel on composition board
signed and dated lower right: 1-6-48 / Nolan
Simon Sainsbury, London, by 1961
Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
Victor Macallister, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1964
Thence by descent
Private collection, Victoria
Gould Galleries, Melbourne
Joan Clemenger AO and Peter Clemenger AO, Melbourne, acquired from the above in May 2010
Sidney Nolan: Queensland Outback Paintings, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 - 22 March 1949, cat. 7
Sidney Nolan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1957, cat. 18 (illus. in exhibition catalogue pl. VI)
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 September - 29 October 1967; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 November - 17 December 1967; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 January - 4 February 1968, cat. 38 (label attached verso, as "Convict")
Sidney Nolan: 102 works from the first fifteen years (1939 - 53), Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 25 July - 7 August 1979, cat. 58 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Collectable + Exceptional, The Director"s Choice 2010, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 6 May - 5 June 2010, cat. 2 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
MacInnes, C., and Robertson, B., Sidney Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961, reprinted 1967, pl. 31 (illus.)
Artists of Australia, Adelaide, 1965
Osbourne, C., Masterpieces of Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1975, cat. 3 (illus.)
Clark, J., Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends, International Cultural Corporation of Australia, Sydney, 1987, p. 99
SIDNEY NOLAN
(1917 - 1992)
ESCAPED CONVICT, 1948
enamel on composition board
122.0 x 91.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: 1-6-48 / Nolan
