Title
Mt Erebus
1964
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus, Antarctica
Mt. Erebus, Antarctica - Date
- 1964
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil and alkyd gel medium on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 123.0 cm board; 131.8 x 131.8 x 3.9 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r.corner, pencil "28 Aug 1964 Nolan -".
- Credit
- Sidney Nolan Deaccession Fund 2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1.2011
- Copyright
- © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Sidney Nolan
Works in the collection
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About
'It is black, ochre, dark green and blue, with an oyster coloured sky and an indigo sea. The colours appear as if under intense moonlight'.
Sidney Nolan 1965Nolan's trip to Antarctica with his friend Alan Moorehead lasted only eight days in January 1964 but was enough for Nolan to later produce a large number of paintings on the theme. He worked incredibly fast, producing no less than 18 works between August 28 and 30 alone, helped by a quick-drying alkyd gel used as a substitute for linseed oil and turpentine; and sometimes using the scraping back technique of his Leda pictures. His adoption of oil paint (as opposed to the enamels and polyvinyl acetate of previous years) lends great translucence and fluidity to these romantically charged works.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Sidney Nolan (January 1965), Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc, New York, Jan 1965 -
Sidney Nolan retrospective exhibition. Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Sep 1967–29 Oct 1967
Sidney Nolan retrospective exhibition. Paintings from 1937 to 1967, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 22 Nov 1967–17 Dec 1967
Sidney Nolan retrospective exhibition. Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 09 Jan 1968–04 Feb 1968
Sidney Nolan: Antarctica (1984), Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, , 08 Aug 1984–01 Sep 1984
Sir Sidney Nolan: a retrospective celebrating his 75th birthday (1992), The Terrace Gallery, Harewood, 19 Jul 1992–31 Oct 1992
Sidney Nolan: Antarctic journey (2006-2007), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 29 Nov 2006–25 Feb 2007
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
Antarctica, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 May 2012–01 Jul 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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James Gleeson., Sun-Herald, 'Art on ice', Sydney, circa Feb 1965.
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John Henshaw., The Australian, 'Evolution of an artist', Sydney, 16 Sep 1967.
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Adele Jackson, Erebus the ice dragon: a portrait of an Antarctic volcano, 'Shaping a volcano: Erebus and the artistic imagination', pg. 263-285, Auckland, 2023, 193, 269 (colour illus.), 345.
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Rodney James, Sidney Nolan: Antarctic journey, 'Desert of ice', pg. 2-67, Mornington, 2006, 18, 20, 22, 24 (colour illus.), 72 (colour illus.). cat.no. 12
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Robert Melville, Sidney Nolan, 'The poetry of painting', pg. 5-8, New York, Jan 1965, (illus.). cat.no. 8; titled 'Mount Erebus'
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Hal Missingham, Sidney Nolan. Retrospective exhibition. Paintings from 1937 to 1967, Sydney, 1967. cat.no. 129; titled 'Mount Erebus, Antarctica'
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Alan Moorehead., Sidney Nolan: Antarctica, 'Introduction', England, 1984, (illus.). cat.no. 17; titled 'Mt. Erebus'
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Barry Pearce, Frances Lindsay, Lou Klepac and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Sidney Nolan, Sydney, 2007, 54, 55, 193 (colour illus.), 238. cat.no. 95; titled 'Mt Erebus'
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Anthony Plant and Heather Lane, Sidney Nolan: Antarctica, 'Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)', pg. 5-6, Cambridge, 2010, 18 (colour illus.). titled 'Mount Erebus'
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Daniel Thomas, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'The poetic themes of Sidney Nolan', pg. 15, Sydney, 09 Sep 1967, 15 (illus.). titled 'Mount Erebus, Antarctica'
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Nicholas Usherwood, Sir Sidney Nolan: a retrospective celebrating his 75th birthday, 'Sir Sidney Nolan', pg. 4-10, Harewood, 1992, 5 (colour illus.), 8, 10. titled 'Mt. Erebus, Antarctica'
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Natalie Wilson., Foundation Newsletter #18, 'Curators & Coordinators' reports', Sydney, Jun 2011, (colour illus.).
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