Arkie Under the Shower 1986-87

BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992)

Arkie Under the Shower 1986-87

oil on board
173.0 x 112.0 cm
signed lower right: brett whiteley
signed, dated and inscribed verso: 'arkie under the shower'/ 1986-87/ brett whiteley

Provenance:
Gift of the artist to Arkie Whiteley, c1991
Private collection, Sydney, 1993
Christie's, Sydney, 26 August 2003, lot 52
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 December 2007, lot 31
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 23 September 2010, lot 37
Property of an investment syndicate, Melbourne

Reference:
The painting appears in a 1989 television program entitled Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (50min. 43 sec.), directed and produced by Don Featherstone - the film was also shown with the touring Brett Whiteley retrospective of 1995.

Related Works:
The Bather, 1981, oil on canvas, 106.0 x 91.4 cm, private collection, Sydney, illus. in McGrath, S., Brett Whiteley, Bay Books, Sydney, 1979, p.117, pl.63
Screen as the Bathroom Window, oil on canvas (diptych), 270.0 x 182.0 cm overall, illus. in McGrath, S., Brett Whiteley, Bay Books, Sydney, 1979, p.41

Estimate: $1200000 - 1600000

Result Hammer: $1000000