Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)

gouache, pen and ink and collage on paper, titled and stamped with artist’s stamp l.r.c. ‘The Wagtail beside the Fish River, BW’

Measurements:

42 x 35 cm

Provenance:

Whiteley Family Trust, Sydney in 1980, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1981, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, Private Collection, Sydney, The Estate of the Late Valerie Stern, Sydney

Exhibited:

Brett Whiteley: Portraits: Crucifixions:(a paddock at) Oberon, David Reid’s gallery (by Robin Gibson), Sydney, 1980, cat. 1 (The Wagtail Beside the Fish River 1979) (illus.); Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1981, cat. 213 (titled as above) (illus.)

Reference:

drawing: Adam and Eve 1981 (cat. 112.81); painting: Willy Wagtail with Passionfruit Ripening 1987 (cat. 60.87) Spring Exhibition, exhib. cat., Joseph Brown Gallery, 1981, p. 176 (illus.), Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonne, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, Volume 7, page 488, cat. 174.79

Copyright:

© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2024

• EStimate $80,000 - $120,000
• sold $227,051 Incl BP