Nolan’s product of love, lust and loss finally comes to market
Seventy-five years after Sidney Nolan stormed out of Australian art’s most famous ménage à trois, 44 paintings created during that tumultuous relationship will come onto the market for the first time.
The works include early abstracts, landscapes and portraits painted between 1938 and 1947, when Nolan lived with wealthy art patrons John and Sunday Reed on a property at Heidelberg in Melbourne, known as Heide (now the Heide Museum of Modern Art). They form the latest tranche of Nolan art to be sold by the estate of Lady Mary Nolan and form part of Bonhams’ auction of Important Australian Art, to be held in Sydney on August 23.
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