HOWARD ARKLEY
1951-1999

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART FROM THE SELWYN & RENATA LITTON COLLECTION

HOWARD ARKLEY

1951-1999
Psychedelic Head 1990

synthetic polymer paint on canvas
175 x 135 cm

• Lot Sold $400,000 (Hammer Price)
• $490,909 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Howard Arkley, Melbourne
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1990
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 26 April 1992, lot 392, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Private Collection, Melbourne
Fine Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 4 May 2004, lot 32, illustrated
Selwyn and Renata Litton, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Howard Arkley: The Head Show, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 19 October - 10 November 1990, no. 4
Howard Arkley, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 18 October - 30 November 1991, no. 79, illustrated
Winter Exhibition 1999, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, 1999, no. 47, illustrated
Howard Arkley, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne, 6-24 February 2002, no. 11, illustrated
Howard Arkley, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 17 November 2006 - 25 February 2007; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 March - 6 May 2007; Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 6 July - 16 September 2007 (label verso)
Howard Arkley and Friends, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 5 December 2015 - 28 February 2016, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

Virginia Trioli, '"Head Show" Exhibition is a Myth You Can Take at Face Value', The Age, Melbourne, 26 October 1990, p. 16
Jenepher Duncan (ed.), Howard Arkley, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1991, pp. 31, 38 (illustrated), 42
Art + Text, Melbourne, No. 41, January 1992, cover (illustrated)
Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997, pp. 98, 99 (illustrated), 101
The Age, Melbourne, 26 July 1999, p. 5 (illustrated)
Winter Exhibition 1999, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 80, 81 (illustrated)
Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (rev. ed.), Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001, pp. 98, 99 (illustrated), 101
David Thomas, Howard Arkley, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne, 2002, n.p. (illustrated)
Kate Hart, 1788-21st Century Australian Faces, Creative School Supply Co., Melbourne, 2003, (illustrated)
Tim Jamieson, 'We Reveal Australia's Most Important Painting', The Herald Sun Weekend, Melbourne, 6 March 2004, (illustrated)
John Gregory, Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, figure 6.29, pp. 1, 106, 107, 134, 177, 181 (illustrated), 182, 214
Jason Smith, Howard Arkley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006, p. 20 (illustrated)
Anthony Fitzpatrick and Victoria Lynn, Howard Arkley and Friends, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2015, pp. 18, 19, 101 (illustrated), 143
John Gregory, Arkley Works: Howard Arkley Online Catalogue Raisonné, www.arkleyworks.com, (illustrated)