Sidney Nolan 'From Degas: Idea for Indoor Leda, Kind of Still Life (Braque) or Courbet – Lesbians or Manet's Olympia 1961...' romantic Signed: Signed and dated with

Signed: Signed and dated with initials lower left: AB

inscribed on reverse: Susanna Ehlert

Apart from a brief infatuation with Abstract Expressionism

it is captured with raw intimacy

but a mapping of intensely personal and familiar terrain

Sidney Nolan 'From Degas: Idea for Indoor Leda, Kind of Still Life (Braque) or Courbet – Lesbians or Manet's Olympia 1961...' romantic Signed: Signed and dated withIn 1960, Sidney Nolan debuted a series of works at Matthiesen Gallery in London centred around Leda and the Swan, an Ancient Greek myth. It was the first time he had presented works on a universal story rather than a purely Australian one contributing to what one critic described as a do as Melbourne does summer in Britains art world. The exhibition was a resounding success with Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Kenneth Clarke and Agatha Christie collecting