Bill Henson
(born 1955)
UNTITLED #18, 1985 – 86
from SUBURBAN series
Type C photograph
106.0 x 87.0 cm (image)
128.0 x 100.0 cm (sheet)
134.5 x 113.5 cm (frame)
edition: 3/20
signed, dated and inscribed with number and title below image: IMAGE NUMBER 18 EDITION 3/20 UNTITLED 1985/86 Bill Henson
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$31,909 (inc. BP)
© Bill Henson
lot details
128.0 x 100.0 cm (sheet)
134.5 x 113.5 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with number and title below image: IMAGE NUMBER 18 EDITION 3/20 UNTITLED 1985/86 Bill Henson
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in January 2005
Long term loan, University of Technology, Sydney, September 2005 – July 2021
Exhibited
Bill Henson: Untitled 1985-86, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, 1987 and Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, 1988, cat. 123 (another example)
Bill Henson, Works from Untitled 1985-86, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, 7 – 28 April 1993 (another example)
Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 January – 3 April 2005; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 April – 10 July 2005 (another example, illus. cover exhibition brochure)
Shadowplay, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 9 May – 22 June 2008
Bill Henson Untitled 1985/86, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 16 November – 14 December 2013 (another example)
Literature
Henson, B., and Annear, J., Mnemosyne, Scalo, Zurich, in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 295 (illus., another example), 495
Henson, B., 1985, Stanley / Barker, London, 2014, np (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne


