Skip to main content

Important Australian + International Fine Art - 22 November 2023  |  Sydney

Lot 62
Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
BIRD ON A BRANCH, 1977

sugarlift aquatint on paper

43.0 x 75.0 cm (image)
68.5 x 78.5 cm (sheet)



Estimate:
AU$8,000 – $12,000


Lot sold: $18,409 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
BIRD ON A BRANCH, 1977

sugarlift aquatint on paper

43.0 x 75.0 cm (image)
68.5 x 78.5 cm (sheet)

signed and numbered below image
stamped with studio stamp lower right: BW

Provenance

Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Perth

Exhibited

Brett Whiteley, Recent Painting and Drawings, Fischer Fine Art, London, September 1977, cat. 76 (another example, as 'Bird on Branch')

Literature

Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: The Complete Graphics, 1961 - 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 29, p. 27 (illus., another example)
Deutscher, C., Brett Whiteley The Graphics 1961 - 1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, cat. 44, p. 52 (illus., another example)
Sutherland, K.,  Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 87P, vol. 3, p. 442 (illus. another example), vol. 5, p. 92 (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 824