Title
Black landscape
1960
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1960
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- brush and black ink, watercolour, gouache on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 55.8 x 75.8 cm image/sheet; 79.0 x 104.5 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated bot. c., ink " Whiteley 60 ".
- Credit
- Gift of the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1985
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.1985
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Brett Whiteley
Works in the collection
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About
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
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
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
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Lou Klepac (Editor), Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Melbourne, 1993, 16. cat.no. 41
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 87 (illus.), 123. plate no. 78
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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, 4. cat.no. 26
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Landscape and gesture', pg. 239-240, Sydney, 2000, 246 (colour illus.), 302.
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Robert Raymond, 52 views of Rudy Komon, Sydney, 1999, 164.
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Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: A sensual lilne 1957-67, Victoria, 2010, 236, 237 (colour illus.). cat.no. CC9
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