Title
Untitled (abstract)
circa 1939
Artist
-
Details
- Other Title
- Abstract
- Date
- circa 1939
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- oil on blotting paper
- Dimensions
- 44.5 x 57.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black oil "Nolan". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2013
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 173.2013
- Copyright
- © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
-
Sidney Nolan
Works in the collection
- Share
-
About
Exploring the foundation elements of line, shape and colour, this drawing witnesses Nolan's early efforts to create a modernist language that drew upon everything that interested him – from art to elements in the everyday world around him. In particular, it relate to Nolan's 'Luna Park' painting (also in the Art gallery of New South Wales collection), sharing its source in the linear ironwork frame of the Big Dipper at Melbourne’s celebrated Luna Park funfair in St Kilda.
Nolan's search for innovative form and structure led him to try a range of drawing media from crayon, gouache, watercolour and pastel to oil and enamel paints – and to make his drawings, paintings or prints on paper of different textures and densities from tissue paper, through glossy art and photographic paper to blotting paper (as in this case) or even glass.
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Sidney Nolan Drawings, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 09 Sep 1989–10 Dec 1989
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
-
Andrew Sayers, Sidney Nolan drawings: a souvenir book of the exhibition at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, 14. titled 'Abstract'
-