The plain, as much as the city, was the heartland of the contemporary spirit, the place where the artist could learn to see clearly and unblinkered in an unflinching encounter with a landscape free of the accretions and romantic fallacies of the past.'1 1. Richard Haese, 'Under the sign of the plain and the sky,' in Sidney Nolan: the city and the plain, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, …

Provenance

Purchased from the artist; Private collection, Victoria, then by descent

Exhibitions

Sidney Nolan: 102 works from the first fifteen years (1939-53), Joseph Brown gallery, Melbourne, 25 July - 7 August 1979, cat. 29 (illus.)