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