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Story by Jack Foley |
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THE Rebecca Hossack Gallery (RHG) in London will be presenting a new exhibition, entitled Three Great Australians, from Thursday, April 11 until Saturday, May 4, featuring the work of acclaimed artists Arthur Boyd, John Cato and Sidney Nolan.
Nolan was born in Melbourne, Victoria on April 22, 1917, and studied
intermittently at the National Gallery of Victoria School from 1934, and later
engraving and lithography under SW Hayter at the Atelier 17, in Paris.
During the Second World War, he was conscripted and served at Dimboola in
the Wimmera District of Victoria.
He was associated with the avant-garde literary journal, Angry Penguins, with
John Reed and Max Harris and painted individual interpretations of historical
and legendary figures such as Ned Kelly (for which he is probably most famous),
Mrs Fraser, Rimbaud, Burke and Wills, with which he attained international
acclaim.
From 1950 he lived mainly in Britain. He also designed for the ballet and
opera and provided illustrations for books. He was awarded the CBE in 1963
and was knighted in 1981.
In 1987 he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery
of Victoria, which toured Australian state capitals in 1987-88. He died in
London in November 1992.
The collection of his work at the RHG promises to offer an intriguing insight
into the great artist's best work, including the above lithograph of his acclaimed
piece, Girls.
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