SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- Lady Mary Nolan, widow of Australian artist Sir Sidney Nolan, stated that she assumed that paintings she had sold following his death belonged to him.

 

Lady Nolan, the artist’s third wife, is the sole beneficiary in his will after the artist died of a heart attack on November 30, 1992, at the age of 75.

 

Jinx Nolan, the artist’s adopted daughter from his second marriage to Cynthia Nolan, has taken court action to recover three paintings she claims were left to her in her mother’s estate after she died in 1976.

 

Lady Nolan said she did not recall ever saying that if Jinx Nolan could prove her mother owned any works, they would be returned to her.