Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992)

SUBURB, 1964

oil on board

120.0 x 120.0 cm
130.0 x 130.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower left: 27–4–64 / nolan 

Cynthia Nolan, London
Charles Osborne, London, acquired from the above in 1976
Sotheby’s, Sydney, 29 November 1993, lot 183
Private collection
Mossgreen, Melbourne, 28 October 2014, lot 80
Private collection, Melbourne

Sidney Nolan, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, January 1965, cat. 34 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
probably: Sidney Nolan Recent Paintings, Albert Hall, Canberra, 26 August – 8 September 1965, cats. 25 – 39 (as ‘Heads, Faces and Hats’)
Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition: Paintings from 1937 – 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 September – 29 October 1967, then touring to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 November – 17 December 1967; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 January – 4 February 1968, cat. 122 (label attached verso)
Poetry International Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 19 – 24 June 1972
Important Works from Private Collections, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney, 7 – 25 May 2014

White, P., The Burnt Ones, First Edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1964 (illus. front cover)
‘Sidney Nolan Retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’, exhibition advertisement, The Bulletin, Sydney, 23 September 1967, p. 9 (illus.)
Rodney, J., Sidney Nolan: Antarctic Journey, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2005, p. 17 (illus.)
Turley, A., ‘Painted Ladies’, Portrait, Canberra, September 2015, p. 64 (illus.)
Turley, A., A Day–by–Day Guide to The Adelaide Ladies: 59 Works by Sidney Nolan, April to June 1964, Andrew Turley, 2016, cat. 04, pp. 14, 26, 34, 36 (illus. front cover)
This painting appears in Peters, J., and Aitken, S., Nolan: The Man and The Myth, broadcast: 60min, ABC and BBC Four, Flaming Star Films, 2019