Provenance played a key role in the performance of a small group of pictures formerly owned by one of Australia’s biggest artists, Sidney Nolan (1917-92).
The four works, offered alongside antiques, were consigned from the estate of his late wife Lady Mary Nolan to Leominster saleroom Brightwells (22% buyer’s premium) on March 21.
The couple had lived for many years at the Rodd, an imposing Elizabethan manor house on the Wales-England border not far from Leominster.