Silver Eye 1988

BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Silver Eye 1988

screenprint
76.5 x 72.5 cm (image); 108.0 x 78.0 cm (sheet)

signed lower right: brett whiteley

numbered and titled lower left: A/P SILVER EYE

edition: Artist's Proof (edition of 75)

Provenance:

Private collection, Sydney

Thence by descent, private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Birds 1988: Recent Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and One Screenprint, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 1988, cat.65 (as Silvery Eye/Japanese: 'Fragility', another example)

New Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 27 November - 20 December 1989 (another example)

Reference:

Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p.95, cat.100 (illus. p.115, another example)

Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol.5, p.190, cat.154P (illus., another example), vol.7, p.841

Estimate: $12000 - 18000

Result Hammer: $16000