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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 3, 2024 | Bonhams | Sydney | Important Australian Art | 43 | $****** - ****** | Shot (Kelly) | |||
Oct 13, 2014 | Bonhams | Sydney | Important Later Works from the Estate of Sir Sidney Nolan | 119 | Estimates not disclosed | Shot (Kelly) |
paintings
91.5 x 122 cm (36.02 x 48.03 in)
enamel spray on board
signed lower right: "Nolan"
Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992
Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016
The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
Bonhams, Important Later Works from the Estate of Sir Sidney Nolan , 13 October 2014, lot 119
Private collection, Victoria
Sidney Nolan: a personal view , School of Art Galleries, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom, 17 February - 21 March 2003
Imagining Ned , Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 28th March - 28th June 2015
As a finale to a career that spanned seven decades of the 20th Century, no painting could be more appropriate than Shot 1991. Nolan"s international fame was founded on his Kelly images and, while his other series added to the lustre, to this day he remains best known for Australia"s most recognised artistic motif: the helmet of his hero-outlaw.
From the earliest Kelly paintings in the mid-1940s, to this, his last work, the character inside the helmet increasingly became psychologically attached to, and sometimes synonymous with, the artist himself. Nolan explored his own persona through the Kelly character.
Dr Simon Pierse has written "In Shot (1991), his last painting, Kelly is shown "fatally wounded" by five spots of red spray-paint, with hands - still brandishing guns - raised in a final act of surrender or defiance. Such a painting, uncharacteristic in its departure from the factual record of Kelly"s life, serves to underline the autobiographical nature of Nolan"s final works."1
Shot concluded Nolan"s artistic career much as it began, using spray paint techniques. One of his earliest works Illustration for Ulysses, 1936, shows a sophisticated handling of airbrush, learnt while working in the art department of Fayrefield Hats, Melbourne. 1 When Nolan returned to the technique 50 years later uninformed critics assumed he was appropriating a contemporary technique used by much younger artists.
1. Simon Pierse "Sidney Nolan- a personal view" exhibition review
2. Andrew Sayers, Sidney Nolan Drawings , Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p. 5
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)
Shot (Kelly), c.1991
signed lower right: "Nolan"
enamel spray on board
91.5 x 122.0cm (36 x 48 1/16in).
