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Brett Whiteley(1939-1992)Silver Eye, 1988
11 – 12 May 2022, 19:30 AEST
SydneySold for AU$17,220 inc. premium
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Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
Silver Eye, 1988
numbered and titled lower left: '28/75 SILVER EYE'
signed lower right: 'brett whiteley'
screenprint, edition 28 of 75
image size: 76.5 x 72.5cm (30 1/8 x 28 9/16in).
numbered and titled lower left: '28/75 SILVER EYE'
signed lower right: 'brett whiteley'
screenprint, edition 28 of 75
image size: 76.5 x 72.5cm (30 1/8 x 28 9/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Gallery Gaia, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above on 5th February, 1995
EXHIBITED
Brett Whiteley: 'Birds': 1988: Recent paintings, drawings, sculpture, and one screenprint, The Artist's Studio, Sydney, 1988, cat. 65, titled Silvery Eye/Japanese: 'Fragility' (another example)
New Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 27 November - 20 December 1989 (another example)
LITERATURE
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, cat.100, p.95 (illus., another example), 115
Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonne, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 154P, vol. 7, p. 841; vol. 5, p. 190 (illus., another example)
