Sidney Nolan

Sidney Nolan in the 1940s

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC, CBE (/ˈnoʊlən/; 22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) is regarded as one of Australia's great artists.[1][2] He used many art forms including painting, drawing, printmaking, set design (for theatre), murals, spray painting and collage. He created over 10,000 individual art works,[1][3] considered a prolific, or large, number of works of art.[2][4][5]

Nolan is famous for his set of 27 Ned Kelly paintings.[1] His friend, Sunday Reed, donated 25 of the paintings to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where a special room has been built to display them.[6] In 2010 one of the Kelly paintings was given to the National Gallery of Victoria.[7] One of the Kelly paintings not owned by the museum was sold in March 2010 for AU$5.4 million. This was the highest price ever paid for an Australian painting.[8]

Nolan was born in Carlton, Victoria on 22 April 1917.[3] He attended Prahran Technical College and studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.[1] In 1948 he moved to Sydney, New South Wales and then in 1953 he moved to London where he stayed until his death on 28 November 1992.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Sir Sidney Robert Nolan". Design and Art Australia Online. 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cuthbertson, Debbie (April 22, 2017). "Sidney Nolan: Australian Synchrotron helps reveal the man behind the Ned Kelly mask". Sidney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Sidney Nolan | About". Sidney Nolan Trust. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.
  4. ↑ "Australia's modernist painters – Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester – Melbourne 1940s". Australian Government. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Underhill, Nancy D.H. (2016). "Nolan, Sir Sidney Robert (Sid) (1917–1992)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "New Home for Ned Kelly". National Gallery of Australia. 2011. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Nolan Artwork an Early Birthday Present for the NGV". National Gallery of Victoria. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  8. ↑ Vincent, Michael (26 March 2010). "Nolan's Ned Kelly no steal at $5.4m". ABC News. Retrieved 10 Nov 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)