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Sidney Nolan: The Ned Kelly Story

Sayers, Andrew, with a foreword by William S. Lieberman
1994
64 pages
45 illustrations
11 x 9.65 in
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The Ned Kelly story was painted in 1946–47 by Sidney Nolan, the most famous of all Australian artists. Nolan's cycle of twenty-seven paintings depicts the exploits of Australia's legendary Victorian-era outlaw, Ned Kelly, and his gang. An essay by Andrew Sayers, curator at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, discusses Nolan's debt to the art of Henri Rousseau and his involvement with both the Australian landscape and the myths surrounding Kelly.

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Sayers, Andrew, and Sidney Nolan. 1994. Sidney Nolan: The Ned Kelly Story. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.