STRANGE TREE AND ROCK FORMATION NEAR PALM BEACH, SYDNEY, 1976

Twenty Classics of Australian Art
Melbourne
11 November 2020
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BRETT WHITELEY

(1939 – 1992)
STRANGE TREE AND ROCK FORMATION NEAR PALM BEACH, SYDNEY, 1976

ink on paper

33.0 x 40.5 cm

inscribed with title lower right: strange tree and rock formation near/ Palm Beach Sydney
bears artist’s studio stamp lower right

Estimate: 
$20,000 – 30,000
Sold for $24,545 (inc. BP) in Auction 62 - 11 November 2020, Melbourne
Provenance

Marlene Antico Fine Art, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Stanley & Co., Sydney, 21 May 2005, lot 38
Private collection, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2008

Exhibited

Brett Whiteley, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 16 September – 15 October 1994, cat. 34

Literature

Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat.168.76, vol.3, p. 338 (illus.), vol. 7, p. 372