Brett Whiteley

Brett Whiteley AO (1939 – 1992) B I O G R A P H Y Brett Whiteley, Australian avant - grande artist. Whiteley began drawing at a very early age. He attended drawing classes throughout 1956-1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney. Whiteley achieved wide recognition, spending a long period abroad, exhibiting paintings, drawings and sculptures in Britain, Europe and the United States, before returning to Sydney in 1969. His years in London were particularly formative when he came in contact with many of the art world’s most influential figures, including members of the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art Movements. Whiteleys early paintings startled critics and fellow artists. With their sensuality of colour and erotic underdrawing, two basic subjects were evident: The landscape and the nude. Whiteley was a skilled draughtsman, capable of capturing a river in a single sweeping line of brush and ink, or the erotic curves of the human body in a few searching strokes of charcoal. AWARDS: Biennale de Paris: International Prize for Young Artists 1962 Archibald Prize: 1976 Self Portrait in the Studio, 1978 Art, Life and the other thing Wynne Prize: 1977 The Jacaranda Tree (On Sydney Harbour), 1978 Summer at Carcoar 1984 The South Coast After Rain Sulman Prize: 1976 Interior with Time Past, 1978 Yellow Nude Represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all public state galleries, mMost regional Australian galleries and represented internationally in collections such as the Tate Gallery of London and MoMA in New York. (Back Cover) Plate 9 – FRUIT DOVE, 1980 Linocut Paper size 37x33cm Ed: 25 plus APs