Sidney Nolan 'Head of Woman' first nations artist With representation across public collections

With representation across public collections

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this work is also a meditation on the meeting of East and West

Brack’s gymnast is captured with a melancholic distance – stripped of identifying features

embodies the former

Sidney Nolan 'Head of Woman' first nations artist With representation across public collectionsSidney Nolan is regarded as one of Australias greatest and most influential artists. While he is widely celebrated for the mythic narratives that shaped his careerNed Kellys spectral figure in the outback, the tragedy of Burke and Wills, the memory of GallipoliNolans early landscapes reveal the foundation on which these legends were built. Painted in 1940, 'Head of Woman' belongs to a formative period in Nolans practice, when he was developing his