Past Catalogue | Important Australian & International Art – March 2022 | Date: 31 March, 2022

Lot 130

The Arrival 1988

offset lithograph

71.0 x 89.0 cm (image)

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

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

Provenance:

Christie's, Sydney, 17 August 1999, lot 409
Private collection, Darwin

Literature:

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

A$8,000

A$12,000

Hammer Price + BP A$44,181.82

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