Amateur sleuth uncovers a devastating chapter of Sidney Nolan s life
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As a giant of Australian art, Sidney Nolan’s work and life have long occupied historians and gossip mongers. But until now, little was known about an event that had a devastating and lasting impact. It took an amateur sleuth from Sydney to piece together the story of Nolan’s 1962 visit to Auschwitz.
Andrew Turley was a former soldier running his own advertising agency when he and his partner, Rachael Ash, stumbled into a Sydney auction house in 2012. Turley knew little about Australian art but among the works being offered for sale was a 1963 Nolan work called