Dalila

Sydney Nolan (1917-1992)

Sydney Nolan is best known for his Ned Kelly series, although during his career he also focussed on early Australian history, the vast and dry Australian landscape as well as many other iconic stories using his minimal and modernist style. Nolan was a member of the Angry Penguins, a group of ‘angry’ young creatives that introduced modernism to Australia. The artists included Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker. Sydney Nolan is a highly collectable artist whose work has steadily increased in value and will continue to do so.

Nolan has based his artwork 'Dalila' on the Biblical story of Samson and Dalila where Dalila, a temptress Philistine woman betrays her lover, Samson a super strong Israelite, to the Philistines. Samson was captured, his eyes burnt out and was imprisoned. So you can see why Nolan has positioned the semi clad Dalila in such an imposing position. Overall, Nolan has had fun with this artwork, he has deliberately created an usual shape for the artwork and has incorporated colour, tone and texture.

Medium:  photolithograph, ed. 31/100 signed and editioned on margin

Size:  44 x 71 cm, frame 65 x 90cm.  

Condition: excellent, this artwork has been recently framed with a hand stained Blackwood frame and mounted using conservation materials.