Brett Whiteley (1939 - 1992)

LIPSTICK, 1982

lithograph in three colours, collage and nail polish

107.0 x 75.5 cm
116.0 x 84.5 cm (frame)

edition: 49/50
signed, numbered and inscribed with title: 49/50 lipstick brett whiteley

Private collection, United Kingdom
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 19 March 2010, lot 209
Private collection, Sydney

Brett Whiteley- Recent Graphics, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 22 July – August 1983, (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
Brett Whiteley: Review of Prints 1976 – 1983, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, 13 November – 7 December 1983
Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 31 August 2018 – 28 January 2019 (another example)

Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: The Complete Graphics, 1961 – 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 67, p. 44 (illus., another example)
Brett Whiteley The Graphics 1961 – 1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, cat. 62, pp. 69 (illus., another example), 113
Grishin, S., et al., Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2018, p. 162 (illus., another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 117P, vol. 5, p. 138 (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 832

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane