Important Australian Art

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Lot 98
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BRETT WHITELEY Australian, 1939-1992

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Brett Whiteley
  • GLASSHOUSE MOUNTAINS
  • Signed lower left; the artist's studio stamp lower right; bears artist's name, title and date 1977 on label on the reverse

  • Ink on paper

  • 73 by 99 cm
  • Executed in 1976

Provenance

Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label on the reverse)

Corporate collection, Melbourne

Catalogue Note

‘As he moved around the countryside of New South Wales – Oberon, Marulan, Carcoar, Bathurst – and to the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland, where he often stayed with his friends Lawrence and Edit Daws, he painted and drew the landscape in all its seasons with a tendency he called “Chinese”. It was not so much the style of the works which gave him this idea as the repetition of certain motifs in nature that might symbolize states of mind’.1

 

1.  Pearce, B., Brett Whiteley, Art & Life 1939-1992, Art Gallery of New  South Wales, Sydney, 1995, pp. 36-37.

Please note this lot is subject to G.S.T.