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Sidney Nolan created designs for Icare, a ballet by Serge Lifar, for the Original Ballet Russe in Sydney in 1940. It marked the beginning of a long association with the theatre that reached a high point when Nolan designed Robert Helpmann’s ballet The Display for the Australian Ballet in 1964.

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Robert McFarlane (b.1942)Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at the Adelaide Festival, 1963
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