The Arrival 1988

BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

The Arrival 1988

offset lithograph
71.0 x 89.0 cm (image)

signed lower right: brett whiteley

numbered and titled lower left: A/P 16/22 'the arrival'

signed within image lower centre: brett whiteley

 

commissioned for the cover of Time Australia to mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988

edition: Artist's Proof 16/22 (edition of 150)

Provenance:

Christie's, Sydney, 17 August 1999, lot 409

Private collection, Darwin

Reference:

Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p.115, cat.98 (illus. p.93, another example)

Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol.5, p.193, cat.156P (illus., another example), vol.7, p.841

Estimate: $8000 - 12000

Result Hammer: $36000