biography
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Nolan, Sir Sidney (Robert)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1917–92)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. Largely self-taught, he took up full-time painting in 1938 and made his name with a series of ‘Ned Kelly’ paintings begun in 1946, following this with an ‘explorer’ series. He first went to Europe in 1950, and although he has worked in Italy, Greece, and Africa, he remains best known for his Australian paintings. He also designed the Covent Garden productions The Rite of Spring (1962), Samson and Delilah (1981), and the Australian Opera's Il Trovatore (1983), has illustrated books by Robert Lowell and Benjamin Britten, and published a volume of poems, drawings and paintings, Paradise Garden (1972). He was knighted in 1981. |
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