FROM 10,000 FEET, 1949
SIDNEY NOLAN
oil and enamel on composition board
91.5 x 121.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: NOLAN / 27-11-49
signed, dated and inscribed verso: 1949 FROM 10,000 feet / To Newcastle “AERIAL LANDSCAPE” / Nolan / 36” x 48” NO (63 struck through) 42 / AERIAL LANDSCAPE / FROM 10,000 ft
bears inscription verso: 25 / FOLK / 26 / 252 / Dub / 27
Estate of the artist
Bonhams, Melbourne, 20 August 2013, lot 44
Private collection, Melbourne
Nolan, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 24 March – 6 May 1961 and touring to Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Wakefield, United Kingdom, 13 May – 28 November 1961, cat. 42 (inscribed verso)
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 September – 29 October 1967; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 November – 17 December 1967; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 January – 4 February 1968, cat. 56 (label attached verso).
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, Arts Centre New Metropole, Folkestone, United Kingdom, 21 February – 18 April 1970 (cat. 26, inscribed verso); Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington; United Kingdom, 30 May – 21 June 1970; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 4–26 July 1970; Feren's Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom, 8–27 September 1970; University of East Anglia Library, Norwich, United Kingdom, 11–31 October 1970 (cat. 25, inscribed verso)
Sidney Nolan: gemalde und druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany, 15 May – 27 June 1971, cat. 19
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland, 19 June – 5 July 1973, cat. 27 (inscribed verso)
'Sidney Nolan show overpowering', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 31 March 1950, p. 2
Nolan, catalogue of the exhibition at Hatton Gallery, published by Department of Fine Art, King's College in the University of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 1961, unpaginated, cat. 42 (as 'Aerial Landscape')
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, Paintings from 1937 to 1967, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1967, p. 20.
Clark, K., Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom, 1970, cat. 25 (as 'From 10,000 Feet', 1949, ripolin, 36” x 48”, private collection)
Sidney Nolan: gemalde und druckgraphik, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany, 1971, p. 35
Sidney Nolan: retrospective exhibition, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 19 June – 5 July 1973, p. 15