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Lot 54
Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
PRELIMINARY NOTES FOR 'HARRY'S BUILDING', 1976

ink, graphite, gouache, pastel, collage and synthetic polymer paint on paper 

17.5 x 12.0 cm (each)
25.0 x 96.0 cm (sight, overall)



Estimate:
$60,000 – $80,000


Lot sold: $73,636 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Brett Whiteley
(1939 - 1992)
PRELIMINARY NOTES FOR 'HARRY'S BUILDING', 1976

ink, graphite, gouache, pastel, collage and synthetic polymer paint on paper 

17.5 x 12.0 cm (each)
25.0 x 96.0 cm (sight, overall)

signed, dated and inscribed with title lower right: preliminary notes for ‘Harry’s building’/ 7’ x 5’ pale grey & white rain April / 76. / brett whiteley
bears artist’s stamp lower right 

Provenance

Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 
Private collection
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 10 September 1998 

Exhibited

Brett Whiteley, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 12 – 30 October 1991, cat. 7
Modern Australian Painting 1920s – 1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 – 27 September 1997, cat. 50 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 44) 
on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales 
 

Literature

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 17, 120 – 121 (illus.), 237
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 202.76, vol. 3, p. 382 (illus.), vol. 7, p. 378