It’s hard to put your finger on Sali Herman’s place in the current Australian art market.

Whiteley’s My Armchair, a major painting from 1976, bears the inscription in the upper right corner: Astral Weeks, a reference to the title of a famous album produced by the Irish singer Van Morrison in 1968. 

Arthur Streeton is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most important landscape painters and a founding member of the ‘Heidelberg School’ group of painters.

Ethel Spowers, a painter and printmaker, was a pivotal figure during one of the most iconic and stylistically rich movements in the history of Australian art. 

Rosalie Gascoigne’s work is refreshingly original and unique in the context of Australian art. 

In an essential sense this painting has everything of Whiteley. 

Charles Blackman came to prominence as a major modernist artist when his now iconic series of schoolgirl paintings was exhibited at the Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne in May 1953.