oil, enamel and mixed media on plywood
Signed ‘Brett Whiteley’ lower right and inscribed ‘Wategos
Beach, Byron Bay’
205 x 243cm
PROVENANCE
Australian Galleries, MelbourneSotheby’s, Fine Australian and European
Paintings, Melbourne, 24-25 November 1997, Lot 195
EXHIBITED
Brett Whiteley Recent Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Ceramics and Wood Carvings
from Byron Bay, Marrakesh, Japan and San Germaniano - TuscanyAustralian Galleries,
Sydney, 1-26 March 1990, catalogue number 11
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 21-24
June 1990, Australian Galleries
“It was not until Whiteley returned to Australia for several months during
1965-66 that he discovered the more expressive possibilities of the female nude,
giving it a natural setting and recording the pleasures that its curves and contours
brought to the draughtsman’s eye. Although the female nude became one of
his most celebrated subjects, he worked incessantly to achieve the sense of ease
with which he rendered it on the clean, dazzling beaches of Australia”.
REFERENCE
Barry Pearce, Brett Whiteley Art & Life, Thames and Hudson (Australia)
Pty Ltd, 1995, page 110
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of AustraliaAll State GalleriesMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkTate
Gallery, London
