In the late 1960s Sidney Nolan produced works to illustrate poems by his friend the renowned American poet, Robert Lowell. While some depict mythological scenes surrounding Agamemnon in Lowell's translation of The Oresteia of Aeschylus others illustrate a chapter from Lowell's 1967 publication, Near the Ocean. The present work has an inscription in Nolan's hand on the reverse referencing Lowel…

Provenance

The collection of Cynthia Nolan; The collection of Ann Robin Banks; thence by decent to a private collection, London The artist Ann Robin Banks was a close friend of Cynthia Nolan and worked on the Eureka Stockade mural with Sidney Nolan. This mural was commissioned for the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1965 and is now housed at the Australian National University, Canberra. The artist Sidney Nolan rented Ann Banks' studio in Fulham and eventually purchased it when she moved to Scotland.