PRELIMINARY NOTES FOR 'HARRY'S BUILDING', 1976

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art

Melbourne

27 July 2022

BRETT WHITELEY

(1939 - 1992)

PRELIMINARY NOTES FOR 'HARRY'S BUILDING', 1976

ink, graphite, gouache, pastel, collage and synthetic polymer paint on paper

17.5 x 12.0 cm (each)
25.0 x 96.0 cm (sight, overall)

signed, dated and inscribed with title lower right: preliminary notes for ‘Harry’s building’/ 7’ x 5’ pale grey & white rain April / 76. / brett whiteley
bears artist’s stamp lower right

Estimate:

$60,000 – $80,000

Sold for $73,636 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne

Provenance

Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Private collection
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 10 September 1998

Exhibited

Brett Whiteley, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 12 – 30 October 1991, cat. 7
Modern Australian Painting 1920s – 1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 – 27 September 1997, cat. 50 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 44)
on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales

Literature

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 17, 120 – 121 (illus.), 237
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 202.76, vol. 3, p. 382 (illus.), vol. 7, p. 378

Deutscher and Hackett