Ned Kelly portrayal breaks auction jot down for Australian art

By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney 323PM GMT twenty-six March 2010

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The First Class Marksman was the usually one in Nolan"s early array of Ned Kelly that the artist kept for himself. It was sole by the munificent Vizard Foundation, that had paid for it in 1992 for a reported $400,000.

The portrayal sole to an different bidder over the phone after a "vigorous" auction. It is right away believed to be the usually one of Mr Nolan"s twenty-seven paintings of Kelly not to be acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.

The NGA plans to set up a new art studio written privately to show off the Kelly collection, that is the majority renouned exhibition.

The cost of the portrayal reflects Australia"s mania with Kelly, a 19th century folk favourite and criminal immortalised in films, novel and paintings and dear by the open for his rebuttal of colonial authorities.

The prior jot down auction cost for an Australian art work was hold by Brett Whiteley"s The Olgas for Ernest Giles, that sole for $3.48 million in 2007.

The sale additionally sets a new jot down for Nolan, whose prior top cost at auction was $1.3m for Death of Constable Scanlon in 2000.