Lawsons, Australian & European Paintings, Sydney, 27/07/1981, Lot No. 169, Sotheby’s, Fine Australian Paintings, Melbourne, 22/08/1994, Lot No. 130

Private Collection, Sydney

Marlborough Gallery, London, May, 1963

Kym Bonython Gallery, Adelaide, March, 1964

Encountering African landscapes and culture for the first time with his wife Cynthia in 1962, Nolan was described by his wife as “wrenched sideways, almost standing, concentrated, taut, his eyes like arrows shooting to nail this enchanted moment”; the intense impact of Nolan’s journey was lasting and culminated in a well-acclaimed exhibition of 34 works titled Sidney Nolan:African Journey held at Marlborough Gallery, London just a year later.

Delmore Gallery, NT; William Mora Gallery, Melb; Applied chemicals collection, Melb; Deutscher & Hackett, Syd 2007; Private coll, Syd

Lawson Menzies Fine Art, Sydney 6/7/2007, Lot 140
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney

Literature:
Reference: see John Peart – Paintings 1964-2004 (retrospective exhibition catalogue) Campbelltown Art Gallery, p 36, for a larger related painting.

David Rankin, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1972; Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2011; Private Collection,Melbourne

Note: the ‘Gibbon’ is Gibbon’s Beach, Bundeena, south of Port Hacking, where the artist stayed in the early 1970s.

David Rankin is a New York based Australian artist. Born in Plymouth, England in 1946, he emigrated to Australia in 1948. Interested in the merging of western, eastern and indigenous art, Rankin sees the role of Australian artists as one of authentically and truthfully absorbing those nearby cultures and spiritual beliefs, and integrating these elements into individual works. Throughout the past thirty years, Rankin has held over 100 one-person exhibitions worldwide; he is represented in many of the world’s leading collections and museums.