Study for Autumn (Near Bathurst) - Japanese Autumn 1987-88

BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Study for Autumn (Near Bathurst) - Japanese Autumn 1987-88

oil and collage on canvas on board
86.0 x 86.0 cm

Provenance:

The artist's estate, Sydney

Thence by descent, the artist's sister, Frannie Hopkirk, New South Wales

Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 21 August 2000, lot 30

Private collection, Melbourne Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 20 November 2001, lot 186

Private collection, Victoria Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 28 August 2005, lot 75

Private collection, Melbourne Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 6 February 2007, lot 312

Property of an investment partnership, Victoria

Reference:

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Kathie Sutherland.

Related Works:

Autumn (Near Bathurst) - Japanese Autumn, 1987-88, oil, tempera, ink and collage on board, 285.5 x 411.5 cm, on loan to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; illus. in Pearce, B., Brett Whiteley: Art and Life, Thames & Hudson in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, pl.159

Oberon, 1987, oil and collage on canvas (triptych), 86.0 x 259.0 cm, private collection, London; illus. in Pearce, B., Brett Whiteley: Art and Life, Thames & Hudson in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, pl.157

Estimate: $70000 - 90000

Result Hammer: $65000