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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

BRETT WHITELEY
1939-1992

The Drought Crow: Sloping Up on the Olgas 1 (Up Front and Outback) 1984-1985

Estimate $700,000 – $900,000

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© Wendy Whiteley

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

BRETT WHITELEY

1939-1992
The Drought Crow: Sloping Up on the Olgas 1 (Up Front and Outback) 1984-1985

oil, tempera, nails and photographs on plywood
signed and inscribed 'the drought from the land and the air' / brett whiteley (walking + using a chopper)' lower left; dated and inscribed 'SLOPING UP / ON THE OLGAS' I / 1984-85 (WITH CROW)' verso
124 x 104 cm
frame: original, Brett Lichtenstein, Sydney

  • Lot Sold $840,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $1,024,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Schubert Art Galleries, Surfers Paradise, by 1990
Private Collection, New South Wales
Private Collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above
Sotheby's Australia
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Brett Whiteley, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 12-28 July 1984, no. 23, 'The Drought Crow 1983-1984', illustrated
The Jack Manton Prize 1987, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 12 February – 29 March 1987, no. 58, 'Sloping Up on the Olgas 1 (Up Front and Outback), 1985', illustrated

Literature

Bettina MacAulay, The Jack Manton Prize: Recent Works by Fourteen Australian Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987, p. 35 (illustrated)
Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Vol. 27, No. 3, Autumn 1990, p. 377 (illustrated), 'Sloping Up the Olgas I'
Art and Australia, The Fine Arts Press, Sydney, vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 1994, (illustrated)

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