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The Courier Mail  |  Phil Brown

When The Courier-Mail sent Australian artist Sidney Nolan to the Queensland outback and Northern Territory to paint the great drought of 1952 it resulted in a fascinating series of drawings and paintings.
Nolan, revered for his Ned Kelly paintings, was asked by this newspaper to record the effects of severe drought and his work from that expedition is still disturbing and impressive.

Australian Financial Review  |  Peter Fish

More than $30 million worth of art is about to cascade onto the Australian auction market, marking the end of a year that should show the first significant turnover improvement since the collapse of the art boom almost a decade ago.

The Australian  |  Matthew Westwood

Albert Tucker’s Images of Modern Evil paintings are among the creepiest pictures in Australian art, being his response to the physical and moral corruption brought about by World War II.

Art critic Robert Hughes regarded the paintings as formative moments in Australian modernism, and while they weren’t ­immediately popular, most of the 29 extant pictures are today in major public collections.

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