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ANZAC bathing scene
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
ANZAC bathing scene, Gallipoli. When the soldiers at Gallipoli were able to get a moment away from the trenches they would often let off steam by playing games, letting them forget for a few moments t...ART91285
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Anzac title page
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Naked Gallipoli soldier without head or arms and with a wooden leg. ANZAC painted across the centre of the image. Nolan stated that the stump leg and missing limbs derives from an antique statue which...ART91203
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Anzac 'walking wounded'
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Wounded Gallipoli soldier on crutches, the figure reminiscent of ancient Greek statues such as Kouros, the sculptures that were young nude Greek youths. The statues embodied the idea of youth and the ...ART91224
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Anzac, watering horses
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Watering horses at Anzac. Nolan stated in an interview (13 April 1978) that horses in the 'Gallipoli' series relate to Homeric mythology rather than the actual Gallipoli story - the Homeric soldiers w...ART91206
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Barbed wire entanglement
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldier entangled in barbed wire. Nolan viewed many photos of the soldiers at Gallipoli at the Imperial War Museum, London and would have seen photos of many dead soldiers, both Allied and T...ART91222
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Bather under shower
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldier having a shower. This is one of the earliest works Nolan created relating to the Gallipoli series whilst he was on the Greek island of Hydra in the Aegean Sea. The works initial sour...ART91259
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[Body in landscape, sea and bird]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli landscape with body, sea and bird. In interview 13 April 1978 Nolan stated that this work relates to the 'Leda and Swan' series that he was working on at the same time in New York. The body ...ART91351
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[Corporal and girl]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli officer on left wearing uniform with corporal's stripes and plumed hat; girl on right. In interview of 13.4.1978 artist states that this work recalls many wharf departure scenes during the 1...ART91361
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Cove at Hydra
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Cove at Hydra, with cliffs and blue sea. In interview of 13 April 1978 artist stated that the cove depicted was at Hydra rather than Anzac Cove. According to Nolan chronology the Nolans were in Greece...ART91261
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[Dead soldier]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Figure of naked dead Gallipoli soldier in landscape with steep cliffs.ART91308
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[Dead soldier in the shallows]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Body of a drowned Gallipoli soldier in the sea water that has turned red with blood. 'When the Anzacs leapt from their landing boats in the early morning of 25 April 1915 they were met by a hail of f...ART91279
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[Drowned Gallipoli soldier]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Figure of drowned Gallipoli soldier, body and head separated. The image of the drowned figure in the 'Gallipoli' series has two sources. It's initial reference is to that of the Anzac's who drowned on...ART91277
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Drowned soldier at Anzac as Icarus
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Cliffs along coastline, with drowned body floating in the sea. The body has a red cross on torso a symbol of the military medical service. With this image Nolan has used a number of references. On the...ART91309
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[Eight Gallipoli figures in shell-burst]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Eight naked Gallipoli figures amidst explosion. Nolan stated (interview 13 April 1978) that this work and those related to it were done at the time he was working on the decor of Stravinsky's "Rite of...ART91356
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[Figure in Gallipoli landscape]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Figure in Gallipoli landscape, wtih cliffs and blue sea.ART91295
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[Figure in landscape]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli landscape with cliffs with figure with outstretched arms in foreground. The figure appears to be falling or drowning and Nolan has smudged the paint with his fingers to reveal the figure. Th...ART91297
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[Figure in water]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli figure in water. Nolan stated (interview 13 April 1978) that this work is related to his brother, Raymond's, death by drowning. Raymond had returned to Australia in 1945 after three years se...ART91331
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[Figure on green abstract]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli figure on green abstract background. Nolan was in Paris in late 1957. This work was presented by Sidney Nolan, along with 251 other Nolan's from the 'Gallipoli' series, in memory of the art...ART91296
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[Figure with prop]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli figure with half arm and wooden leg. Nolan stated that the stump leg derives from an antique statue which he saw supported by a prop in a museum in Delphi or Athens (from interview 13 April ...ART91254