Past Catalogue | 1 DECEMBER 2021 AUCTION | Date: 1 December, 2021

Lot 77

Zen Monks 1971

ink on paper on board

49.5 x 52.0 cm (sheet)

signed, dated and inscribed lower left: Zen Monks Brett Whiteley 2/Mar/71

Provenance:

Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
Mr William Burge, Sydney, c1972
Thence by descent, private collection
Christie's, The W. R. Burge Collection of Australian & International Pictures & Sculpture, Sydney, 6 March 2006, lot 123
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 30 November 2011, lot 59
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature:

McGrath, S., Brett Whiteley, Bay Books, Sydney, 1979, cat.109, p.228 (illus.)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol.3, p.100, cat.42.71 (illus.), vol.7, p.241

Exhibited:

Brett Whiteley: Portraits and Other Emergencies, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney, 29 February - 21 March 1972; Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 29 March - 21 April 1972

Estimate

A$12,000

A$18,000

Hammer Price + BP A$67,500.00

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