Brett Whiteley
(Australia, England 07 Apr 1939–15 Jun 1992)
- Title
- Black landscape
- Year
- 1960
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- black ink, watercolour, gouache on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
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55.8 x 75.8cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated bot. c., ink " Whiteley 60 ".
- Credit
- Gift of the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1985
- Accession number
- 8.1985
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The paintings and drawings Brett Whiteley made in Italy and London during 1960-61 and at Sigean in France in 1962 stamped him as a prodigious young talent. In this period, signpost qualities were established for his future development; warm textures and forms which he gleaned from Italian painting and architecture, terrains of abstraction that excited him in contemporary European and American painters and an enduring recollection of the Australian landscape. They reveal a private, experimental side to Whiteley and are among his best work.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (7)
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Kathie Sutherland (Australia) (Author), Brett Whiteley: A sensual lilne 1957-67, Victoria, 2010, 236, 237 (colour illus.). cat.no. CC9
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 246 (colour illus.), 302.
Robert Raymond (Australia, b.1922) (Author), 52 views of Rudy Komon, Sydney, 1999, 164.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Genesis of a Painter: The early abstractions of Brett Whiteley, Domain, 1998, 4. cat.no. 26
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 87 (illus.), 123. plate no. 78
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Editor), Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Melbourne, 1993, 16. cat.no. 41
- Exhibition history (7)
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Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993.
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993.
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1996–1996.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1996–1996.
Genesis of a Painter: The early abstractions of Brett Whiteley (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Aug 1998–31 Jan 1999.
