[Gallipoli figure in landscape]

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number ART91329
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 52.2 x 63.8cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description textile dye on coated paper
Maker Nolan, Sidney
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made c 1961
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

In an interview of 13.4.1978 the artist stated that this work was related to 'Leda and the Swan' series which he was painting in New York at the same time. Re date - this work similar in style to 1961 dated 'Gallipoli soldier and flag' Acc 91346 cat. no. 144. Impression of figure standing among rocks, large bird flying past, refers to Greek myth of Leda and the swan, and by extension to the Anzacs and the Trojan war; one of Leda's daughters was Helen of Troy. The work was presented in memory of the artist's brother Raymond who drowned in 1945 on returning from military service at the end of the Second World War.