Paddington eatery Lucio s to auction off famous wall art
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It started when Sidney Nolan sketched Ned Kelly s letterbox helmet on the back of a table docket while lunching at Lucio s Restaurant in Paddington.
Filming had just wrapped on the movie
Burke & Wills, and Nolan, employed to paint scenes, was in a celebratory mood. Chuffed by the gesture, Lucio Galletto, who had only the year before moved from Balmain to Paddington, hung the bill on his terrace wall in a gold frame.
Other artists have since left behind tableside sketches or gifted works. Long-time family friend John Olsen went so far as to design the menu cover.