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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

BRETT WHITELEY
1939-1992

Waterfall (1962-1963)

$500,000–700,000

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© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2023

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

BRETT WHITELEY

1939-1992
Waterfall (1962-1963)

oil and collage on canvas
signed 'whiteley' lower left; signed, dated and inscribed 'THE WATERFALL / 1963 / Brett Whiteley' verso (on paper)
122 x 112.5 cm

  • Lot Sold $800,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $981,818 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Brett Whiteley, London
Beryl Whiteley, London, acquired from the above
Fischer Fine Art, London (label verso)
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above on 27 July 1983

Exhibited

A Century of Collecting 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 29 March - 28 April 2007

Literature

Nick Waterlow, A Century of Collecting 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2007, p. 26
Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz City, Melbourne, 2020, cat. no. 78.62, Vol. 1, p. 148 (illustrated), Vol. 7, p. 125

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