Brett Whiteley (1939 - 1992)

The Moreton Bay fig, 1979

etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper

60.0 x 50.0 cm (plate)
89.5 x 60.0 cm (sheet)
96.0 x 77.0 cm (frame)

edition: 58/75
inscribed with title in image lower left: THE MORTON [sic] BAY FIG
signed lower right: Brett Whiteley
numbered lower left: 58/75

Edna and Awdry Julius (Wendy Whiteley’s aunt and uncle), Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Brisbane

The Entire Collection of the Graphics of Brett Whiteley: 1961 – 1981, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 20 July – 9 August 1981, cat. 49 (another example)
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 10 February – 8 July 2001 (another example)
Bohemian Harbour, Museums of History NSW, Sydney, 15 September – 25 November 2018 (another example)

Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: Graphics 1961 – 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 51, p. 39 (illus., another example)
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961 – 1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1992, pl. 54, pp. 61 (illus., another example), 113
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 95P, vol. 5, p. 105 (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 826

Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney