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Details
- Date
- 1986
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 182.5 x 160.0 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Signed and dated verso on stretcher, black charcoal "May 86 nolan".
Signed top c. verso on stretcher, black charcoal ".... NOLAN".- Credit
- Gift of Bond Street City Freeholds Ltd 1989
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 95.1989
- Copyright
- © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Sidney Nolan
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About
'Of course Rimbaud … at a certain point … started to push further and to attribute musical sounds to the structure of his words … and all painters and poets I think try and aspire to music in that sense because music has the most immediate effect on the sensations. You know, it's obvious when you are in the concert hall, that everybody, after a while if the music is working, they all start to breathe in the same rhythm, you can feel it'.
Sidney Nolan 1980After settling at The Rodd in 1983, Nolan took up spray painting. Although his mission to return to abstraction had begun a few years before, it now produced the final blossoming of his painting.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Recent work: Sidney Nolan [1986], The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 16 Oct 1986–08 Nov 1986
The Silk Road: An exhibition of new paintings by Sir Sidney Nolan [1987], The Rotunda, , Jan 1987–Jan 1987
Silk Route [1988], Nolan Gallery, Australia, 15 Jul 1987–20 Sep 1987
Sir Sidney Nolan [1988], Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, East Sydney, 05 Jan 1988–04 Feb 1988
Sidney Nolan (2007-2008), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Nov 2007–03 Feb 2008
Sidney Nolan (2007-2008), Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 22 Feb 2008–18 May 2008
Sidney Nolan (2007-2008), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 06 Jun 2008–31 Aug 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Brian Adams, Sidney Nolan: such is life, Melbourne, 1987, 254. NOTE: General reference.
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Mark Baker., The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Nolan walks a silken road to eternity', Sydney, 08 Oct 1983, unknown.
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David Dolan., Silk Route, 'Silken surprises', Canberra, 1987. cat.no. 3; titled 'Desert'
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Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sir Sidney Nolan, Sydney, 1988. cat.no. 25; titled 'Desert'
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Sandra McGrath., The Weekend Australian, 'Nolan's love affair with China', Sydney, 07 Mar 1981-08 Mar 1981, unknown.
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Barry Pearce, Frances Lindsay, Lou Klepac and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Sidney Nolan, 'Late works 1981-88', pg. 214-227, Sydney, 2007, 13, 60-61, 214-215, 225 (colour illus.), 239, 251. cat.no. 115
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T.G. Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan, London, 2002, 295. NOTE: General reference.
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Susanna Short., The Age, 'Nolan finds serenity in barbarian desert art', Melbourne, 19 Sep 1983, unknown.
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'Highlight shows in 2007', pg. 13, Sydney, Nov 2006, 13 (colour illus.).
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The Silk Road: An exhibition of new paintings by Sir Sidney Nolan, Hong Kong, 1987. not paginated; no catalogue list
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