Swinging Monkey 3 1965

BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Swinging Monkey 3 1965

colour screenprint
76.5 x 56.0 cm (image); 96.5 x 69.0 cm (sheet); 108.0 x 85.0 cm (framed)
signed lower right: Brett whiteley
numbered and titled lower left: 23/70 3 SWINGING MONKEY 3.

edition: 23/70

Provenance:
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 21 August 1996, lot G65
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent, private collection, Italy

Exhibited:
Recent Works from London, Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide; Kim Bonython's Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney, January - March 1966, no.10 (as Swinging Monkey III, another example)
Recent Original Prints by International Artists, Gallery A, Melbourne and Sydney, 1966, cat.42 (another example)
Graphics: Boyd, Hockney, Whiteley, Clune Galleries, Sydney, February 1966 (another example)

Reference:
Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: Graphics, 1961-1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, p.11, cat.7 (illus., another example)
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p.110, cat.7 (illus. p.18, another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957-67, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, p.324, cat.W13
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol.5, p.18, cat.9P (illus., another example), vol.7, p.809

Related Works:
Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

EXHIBITED IN SYDNEY

Estimate: $5000 - 7000

Result Hammer: $4400

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