The sitting room and studio at the lower level from where Brett Whiteley painted are interior spaces that demonstrate the achievements of Brett Whiteley. Perhaps this is what Wendy meant when she spoke with Guardian Australia this month about the agenda his biographers bring to the table: Its always about sex, drugs and rock n roll. Phone 7 days, 9 am to 9 pm, 0413 007 054, Terms |Links | Email Rolf on rolf@etchinghouse.com.au The interior arrangements reflect the current occupant's requirements and they do not necessarily reflect the particular arrangements featured in Whiteley's works. A sculpture by Joel Elenberg titled "Head" was placed by Brett and Joel under this tree. Enlarge. Allow up to 5 days for home delivery to commence (10 days in WA). [1][3], The land upon which the Whiteley House stands was purchased from the Milson family by speculative builder Henry Green in 1905. [1][8]:8,10[6], In 1981 Brett rented a studio at Reiby Place in Circular Quay. Home Delivery not available in all areas. View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow. You are only entitled to this subscription if and for as long as you hold a valid and active subscription with your Google Account. Not long after, (artist) Peter Kingston moved next door. Brett Whiteley The American Dream 1969 Print Triptych AU $285.28 Was: AU $407.55 Free postage or Best Offer BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992) RARE Original limited edition lithograph London 1965 AU $12,500.00 Local pickup or Best Offer Brett Whiteley Style Nude Ink Drawing Chinese Japanese Australian Sydney Woman AU $385.00 or Best Offer Henris Armchair was Whiteleys nod to the French impressionist Henri Matisse, who once said art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. Later, we bought it and knocked down the (internal) walls. Brett Whiteley Artworks View all 43 artworks Related Artists In the 1970s and 1980s the bay attracted a particularly vibrant artistic community in a din of exuberant artistic activity centred on a handful of houses - the homes of some of Sydney's leading artists, among them Brett Whiteley and Peter Kingston. The Whiteley documentary, on the other hand, takes these techniques as a given; animated archival photos, re-enactments by lookalikes in wigs, voice-over readings of Bretts letters. Prices after the first 12 months may be varied as per full Terms and Conditions. Whiteley's trifecta (Archibald, Wynne and Sulman) of 1978 continues to be unique in Australian art history. Lavender Bay Today Today the Lavender Bay holds exhibitions that lasts for a month before the space reverts back into commercial units. [4] The fig tree in front of the house is now overgrown providing a filtered harbour view, however, the features painted by Brett Whiteley are still able to be appreciated. The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 23 March 2018. [1], In addition, the brick viaduct at the end of Walker Street reserve and Quibaree Park, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, parts of Circular Quay and Luna Park are all occasionally featured. [1] He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, England, Fiji and the United States. A large Lavender Bay picture by Brett Whiteley broke the auction record for an Australian painting on Thursday when it sold for $6,136,000 and knocked Ned Kelly off his horse. View all by, AU$82.50
The interior aspects and the exterior views/setting were often juxtaposed in his paintings expressing his creative genius and the significance of Lavender Bay as a subject. View Lavender Bay in the Rain, 1981 (1981) By Whiteley Brett; archival pigment print; 76 x 74 cm ; Edition. Fluid lines and vivid colour leap with dynamism from the canvasses. The late 1970s at Lavender Bay was a wonderful period of creativity for the artist, as Wendy Whiteley attests, 'The Lavender Bay period was about the whole concept of beauty, with sumptuous, glorious pictures celebrating the harbour and the birds, and the table tops too.' . Here is a quote from Whiteley relating to this period of his work; I first went to Paris at age 20, but was so obsessed with modernism and abstraction to paint it. [5] In the words of Brett Whiteley: he expresses the importance of Lavender Bay within his life's body of works: "two-thirds of Braque's work is table tops, there's Morandi's bottles, Lloyd Rees's hills My repeating theme - a subject I will always go back to until I die - Lavender Bay" (from McGrath, 1992 quoted in Britton, 2016). He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, England, Fiji and the United States. 2 sizes 70.5x63cm, 95.4x85.2cm [BACK TO PREVIOUS PAGE], Email or Ph: Following Elenberg's diagnosis of lymphoma in 1979, he moved to Sydney and lived next door to the Whiteleys. Their home became a "scene" well-managed by Wendy. View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow. Lavender Bay was run down, a dead end, but to us it seemed magical. He left Australia for Europe on 23 January 1960. This automatically renews to be charged as $28 (min. All the major spaces and architectural features, such as the studio, conical tower and glazed southern elevation remain. The Whiteley's purchased it in 1974 and reinstated it as a single dwelling, with an eclectic set of features. Kingston - known to his friends as "Kingo" - already knew many of the personalities of the Lavender Bay scene. Wendy was a visionary. The mainstream press loved divining his persona like this: the Herald called him an obsessive bohemian who took life and art to the extreme; the Australian refers to his damaged glamour from 1960, no one had a vaster gift, more sheer brilliance or a bigger impact on the Australian imagination. Brett Whiteleys painting Henris Armchair, from his Lavender Bay series, has sold at auction for $6.136m. But there is something else at play in Bogles documentary: I fear that it inadvertently speaks to the ongoing gender heist in Australian art. It was built during 1905 by Henry Green. . Ashleigh Wilson is the author of Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (2016), On Artists (2019) and A Year with Wendy Whiteley (2022). Depicting the busy intersection of roads surrounding the iconic Parisian monument the Arc de Triomphe, this expressive drawing pulsates with energy. The building was formerly converted to two flats c. Many of these successively won Australia's most prestigious art prizes. Brett Whiteley created this work in Paris in 1989. Rather than transposing European ways of capturing land and light, he found a new visual language for the Australian landscape. Lavender bay in the rain 1981 by Brett Whiteley is a Giclee digitally signed fine art print, image size of 70.5x63cm, paper sheet size 82.5x75cm, Large print image size 95.485.2cm, paper print size 107.597.2cm. We notify you each time your favorite artists feature in an exhibition, auction or the press, Access detailed sales records for over 500,000 artists, and more than two decades of past auction results, Buy unsold paintings, prints and more for the best price, The 15 Geat Dog Pisses of Paris, 1989 ,1989. The house and setting and the views from the house are demonstrative of the inspiration it provided for the creative genius of Brett Whiteley.[1]. He won the Wynne Prize in 1984 for "The South Coast after rain". Payment will be charged to your Google Account. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. A number of prominent trees and distinct vegetation are also included in his art which highlights the importance of these vegetated areas. ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY FROM DIGITAL ART DIRECTORY from Christian McCann Auctions on Invalid date AEDT. Brett Whiteley's house and visual curtilage at 1 Walker Street is of state significance for research potential as it is likely to reveal more information about Brett Whiteley's life and art, to reveal more about the genesis of his paintings and to assist in the ongoing discussion and assessment of his contribution to Australian art. As the principal vantage point for virtually all of the celebrated Lavender Bay works, Brett Whiteley's house and visual curtilage is unique. 2 Colour Screenprint. While in London, Whiteley painted works in several different series: bathing, the zoo and the Christies. A/P. The house and its setting has social significance at a state level as the former home and studio of the artist Brett Whiteley, being regularly visited by art appreciation groups. vegetated foreshore: "Clark Gardens" 1978, "The turquoise prince" 1979, "The split second summer began" 1979, for example. Unique Brett Whiteley Lavender Bay Posters designed and sold by artists. [8]:8[4] After the house renovations, Brett could work from his Lavender Bay studio in Walker Street. Lavender Bay has enchanted some of the giants of Australian art, including its first professional landscape artist, Conrad Martens, as well as Arthur Streeton, Roland Wakelin and Margaret Olley. The building was converted to two flats c.1929. The place is particularly associated with a number of prize-winning paintings (Archibald, Sulman and Wynne) by Brett Whiteley during the 1970s. 2021 Jed-I Business Solutions Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. What he learned from his contacts with such countries as Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan is expressed in his drawings and paintings, and even more in sculptures such as 'Asia', a construction in fur, steel and acrylic in which a white Wallaby was depicted with its head stuck in a sewerage pipe. The Walker Street house was personalised to create the Whiteley home and studio and provides physical evidence of the life and work of the late artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize. Page 1. Whiteley studied at the Julian Ashton art school in Sydney and spent several months in Italy on a traveling art scholarship. Renewals occur unless cancelled as per full Terms and Conditions. The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Brett Whiteley: Lavender Bay, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 25 Oct 2019-15 Mar 2020. . The setting is intact as it was when Brett Whiteley created his notable Lavender Bay works though the Moreton Bay fig tree at the front has now become a large tree framing views of the harbour from the house and Wendy's garden now obscures most views to the railway siding. Sydney: Bay Books, p 185. Brick viaduct: "The split second summer began" 1979, 'Sketchbook pages (BWS 1063 pages 35 verso & 36 1975+)'[1], When the Whiteleys first moved into Lavender Bay, they considered the fig tree on the railway land in front of their house as an extension of their outdoor environment. Brett Whiteley's 1991 painting View from the Sitting Room Window was one of the last works the celebrated Australian painter completed before his death in 1992. Of these major works, most were painted at Walker Street and took in some aspect of the house interiors and/or its environs.[1]. Architectural details and spaces of the house feature in many of his works as do features of the outdoors, including his Archibald Prize winning work "Self portrait in the studio" 1976, Sir John Sulman Prize winning work "Interior with time past" 1976 and Wynne Prize for "The jacaranda tree" (On Sydney Harbour) 1977. This view - including interiors and exterior scenery - was to be the subject of many of Whiteley's iconic paintings. Prominent palms (Phoenix canriensis) in Clark Park frame the views to the left and Washingtonia (or Californian desert fan) palms (Washingtonia robusta) close to the Lavender Bay ferry wharf provide a focal point. Brett Whiteley's ceramics are among his rarest and most delicately lyrical works of art. Important Info. [1][4][10], In 1975 he was awarded the Sir William Anglis Memorial Art Prize, Melbourne. A valid active email address and Australian mobile phone number are required for account set up. a film festival celebrating women directors, an obsessive bohemian who took life and art to the extreme, damaged glamour from 1960, no one had a vaster gift, more sheer brilliance or a bigger impact on the Australian imagination, represents Australian at the Venice Biennale, last years Countess report found that only 34% of the works in state museum collections are by women, the laneways and murals in City of Sydneys public art program. Brett Whiteley House is a heritage-listed arts and crafts studio and residence in Lavender Bay, North Sydney Council, New South Wales, Australia. Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day, Art Gallery of NSW The trust fund, yet to be established, includes a government contribution of $30,000. Gallery Shop Brett Whiteley House is a heritage-listed arts and crafts studio and residence in Lavender Bay, North Sydney Council, New South Wales, Australia. Be sure you never miss out on new products, our sales and special offers! Today, one of Elenberg's sculptures in bronze, "Head" (c.1970) stands at the entrance to the magnificent garden created by Wendy outside the houe; nearby is a carved timber sculpture of a nude by Brett. [6][8]:8 Brett spent three months in Bali with his dying friend Joel in 1980. Each payment, once made, is non-refundable, subject to law. The studio and home was an environment which provided inspiration that lead to award-winning and influential works of art. Jenna Gribbon, Luncheon on the grass, a recurring dream, 2020. In its humility and its provision of a beautiful, restful space for the general public, it was 20 years ahead of todays space-activating projects like Renew Newcastle, the laneways and murals in City of Sydneys public art program, and the now-ubiquitous pop-up gallery, which all creatively reclaim dead spaces in order to revitalise cities. See www.theaustralian.com.au/subscriptionterms for full details. Wendys Secret Garden is not a grand statement. He had many shows in his career, and lived and painted extensively in Italy, England, Fiji and the United States. Towards the end of Whiteley, an overhead shot shows Wendy toiling away in her garden but this, I think, is where the real story started. Allow up to 5 days for home delivery to commence (10 days in WA). . Brett Whiteley's house and visual curtilage at 1 Walker Street is of state heritage significance as the one place where he spent most of his artistic life in Australia.