Important Australian + International Fine Art - 28 August 2013 | Sydney
Lot 15
Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
SUMMER I, 1961
tempera, collage, pencil and charcoal on paper on card
56.0 x 78.0 cm
Estimate:
$20,000 - 30,000
Lot sold: $36,000 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
SUMMER I, 1961
tempera, collage, pencil and charcoal on paper on card
56.0 x 78.0 cm
signed lower left: 61 / Whiteley
inscribed on backing board verso: CAT NO 14 / SUMMER I / Brett Whiteley / 1961 /...
Provenance
Matthiesen Gallery, London
Collection of Lex Aitken and Alfredo (Bouret) Gonzalez, Sydney
Exhibited
Brett Whiteley Paintings and Gouaches, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 9–31 March 1962, cat. 17 (label attached verso, incorrectly identified as 'White Summer', cat. 21) (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line, 1957–67, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, p. 244