Past Catalogue | Menzies March 2019 Auction | Date: 28 March, 2019

Lot 40
BRETT WHITELEY
The Paddock - Late Afternoon 1979
oil on canvas
202.0 x 152.0 cm

signed lower centre: brett whiteley

Provenance:

Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2011, lot 46
Private collection, Sydney
Company collection, Melbourne

Related work:

Oberon, NSW After the Rains 1983, oil, gouache, ink, pencil, charcoal and moulding compound on cardboard, 96.0 x 64.0 cm; illus. in Wilson, G., Rivers and Rocks: Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley, Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, 2001, p.49
Oberon 1987, oil and collage on canvas (triptych); illus. in Wilson, G., Rivers and Rocks, Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley, Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, 2001, p.48
The Paddock - Early Morning 1979, oil on canvas, 203.0 x 153.0 cm; sold Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 8 September 2004, lot 31
The River at Marulan ( … Reading Einstein’s Geography) 1976, oil on board, TarraWarra Museum of Art collection, Victoria

Literature:

Pearce, B., Brett Whiteley: Art & Life, Thames & Hudson and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, p.235, pl.156 (illus.)
Wilson, G., Rivers and Rocks: Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley, Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, 2001, p.52 (illus.)
This work is to be included in the forthcoming publication: Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2019, cat.161.79

Exhibited:

Portraits, Crucifixions, (a Paddock at) Oberon, David Reid's Gallery, curated by Robin Gibson, Sydney, 26 April - 17 May 1980, cat.36
Brett Whiteley: Art & Life 1939-1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 September - 19 November 1995; Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 13 December 1995 - 28 January 1996; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 February - 8 April 1996; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 9 May - 16 June 1996; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 July - 26 August 1996; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 18 September - 17 November 1996, cat.74 (label attached verso)
Rivers + Rocks, Bundanon Trust travelling exhibition, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 20 October - 27 January 2002; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 8 February - 10 March 2002; New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales, 15 March - 21 April 2002; Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, 10 May - 9 June 2002; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Queensland, 21 June - 21 July 2002; Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, New South Wales, 3 August - 8 September 2002; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 25 September - 27 October 2001; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1 November - 1 December 2002 (label attached verso)

 

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