Title
Untitled painting
1961
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1961
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil, tempera and collage on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 153.3 x 152.3 cm board; 162.8 x 162.7 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.r. verso, black oil "Brett Whiteley 61".
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 272.1996
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Brett Whiteley
Works in the collection
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About
'Untitled painting' was created during a spectacularly successful year when Whiteley exhibited to great acclaim at London's Whitechapel Gallery and, following the purchase of a painting by the Tate Gallery, established his international reputation.
During his time in London, Whiteley continued to combine the earthy colours of Australia - reflecting the influence of the paintings of Russell Drysdale - and the ambience of Italian painting and architecture with powerful hybrid forms of landscape and the female torso.
'Untitled painting' exudes the confidence with which he handled his visual sources, heralding the elegant and relaxed abstract work of his subsequent honeymoon period at Sigean in the south of France.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 13 exhibitions
Brett Whiteley, Paintings and Gouaches (1962), The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 09 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962
Australian Art: colonial to modern, Deutscher Fine Art (Perth), Perth, 20 Aug 1986–25 Aug 1986
Australian Art: colonial to modern, Deutscher Fine Art (Sydney), Sydney, 05 Sep 1986–13 Sep 1986
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Sep 1995–19 Nov 1995
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 13 Dec 1995–28 Jan 1996
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 Feb 1996–08 Apr 1996
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09 May 1996–16 Jun 1996
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jul 1996–26 Aug 1996
Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 18 Sep 1996–17 Nov 1996
Genesis of a Painter: The early abstractions of Brett Whiteley (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Aug 1998–31 Jan 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
9 shades of Whiteley, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 12 Jul 2008–07 Sep 2008
9 shades of Whiteley, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, 13 Sep 2008–15 Nov 2008
9 shades of Whiteley, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 22 Nov 2008–08 Feb 2009
9 shades of Whiteley, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 14 Feb 2009–26 Apr 2009
9 shades of Whiteley, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 01 May 2009–14 Jun 2009
9 shades of Whiteley, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 02 Jul 2009–23 Aug 2009
Iconic Whiteley (2009-2010), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 12 Sep 2009–22 Aug 2010
Brett Whiteley - Connections (2010-2011), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 06 Nov 2010–19 Mar 2011
The London years 1960-67 (2012), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 14 Jul 2012–13 Feb 2013
Pathways to figuration, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 31 Mar 2018–07 Oct 2018
Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Dec 2018–31 Mar 2019
Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 31 Jul 2021–31 Oct 2021
Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 10 Dec 2021–26 Jan 2022
New Generations, Exhibition Venue Unknown,
Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Terry Ingram, The Australian financial review, 'Whiteley work bound for NSW', pg. 45, Sydney, 30 May 1996, 45.
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Barry Pearce and Alec George, 9 Shades of Whiteley, '2: Abstraction', pg. 17, Sydney, 2008, 3, 16 (colour illus.), 17.
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Barry Pearce, Australian painters of the twentieth century, Brett Whiteley', pg. 232-243, Sydney, 2000, 234 (colour illus.), 235.
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Landscape and gesture', pg. 239-240, Sydney, 2000, 247 (colour illus.), 302.
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Barry Pearce, Genesis of a Painter: The early abstractions of Brett Whiteley, 'Genesis of a painter: The early abstractions of Brett Whiteley', pg. 2-3, Sydney, 1998, cover (colour illus.), 4. cat.no. 15
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Barry Pearce, Brett Whiteley Art & Life, 'Abstractions', pg. 56-73, London, 1995, 62 (colour illus.). plate no. 11
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Barry Pearce, Look, 'Genesis of a Painter: the early abstractions of Brett Whiteley [1939-92]', pg. 20-21, Heidelberg, Sep 1998, 20 (colour illus.).
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Jane Scott, Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley, Brett Whiteley: Connections, 'Brett Whiteley: Connections', Healesville, 2010.
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Carles S. Spencer, The Studio, 'The Peter Stuyvesant Collection: Paintings while you work', pg. 18-21, London, Jan 1963, 21 (illus.).
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Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: A sensual lilne 1957-67, ‘Revelation: Rome to London 1960-1962’, pg. 42-84, Victoria, 2010, 63, 64 (colour illus.), 248. cat.no. EE24
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The Matthiesen Gallery (Curator), Brett Whiteley: Paintings and Gouaches 9 - 31 March 1962, London, 1962. cat.no. 5
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