First Class Marksman Painting by Sidney Nolan Auctioned at Menzies Arts Brands
Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 02:00 Written by a2e Friday, 26 March 2010 02:00
Sidney Nolan’s painting of Ned Kelly, First-Class Marksman, sold for $5.4 million at Menzies Arts Brands in Sydney making it the most expensive Australian artwork ever sold at auction.
The purchase beat the previous Australian art auction record of $3.48 million for Brett Whiteley’s The Olgas for Ernest Giles, in 2007.
Art-market analyst Michael Reid said the result was a ”wonderful money-vitamin shot in the arm to the industry that has been anaemic for the last 12 months”.
”Sidney Nolan is one of Australia’s most important 20th-century artists and the Kelly series is his most significant contribution to Australian art history and theory,” he said. ”The Kelly myth is so central to the way we see ourselves.”
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