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BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Lot 130
23.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 728651
Lot 130 | BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)
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£ 50 000 – 70 000
BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Preliminary Sketch for 1970 Sydney Exhibition

signed and inscribed '''PRELIMINARY SKETCH FOR 1970 SYDNEY/EXHIBITION''/Brett Whiteley'' (on the backboard), signed and inscribed again 'Preliminary sketch for Bonython exhibition 1970 including platypus print + kookaburra totems. Brett Whiteley.' (along the upper edge)

watercolour, gouache, ink and collage on paper

22 1⁄2 x 56 1⁄2 in. (57.2 x 143.5 cm.)

Executed in 1970.







Provenance

with Bonython Galleries, Sydney, where purchased by Hilary and Irena Koprowski in 1972.

Anonymous sale; Freeman’s, Philadelphia, 3 May 2015, lot 91.

with Michael Graham-Stewart, London, where purchased by the present owner, circa 2016.





Literature

K. Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 1955-1992, Vol. 3, Victoria, 2020, pp. 14-15, illustrated.

K. Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 1955-1992, Vol. 7, Victoria, 2020, p. 218, no. 34.70.





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