It is also known as Brett Whiteley House and Visual Curtilage and Lochgyle. Lavender Bay. Minor modifications have been made to the interiors of the house, however, the space retains its integrity as the place where Whiteley lived and worked. The garden, now known as Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden is leased from RailCorp by North Sydney Council. He won the Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times, and his artistic career was bolstered by his celebrity status in Australia and overseas. Throughout 1956-1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes. He also won the Wynne Prize for "Summer at Carcoar" (1978). (Brett Whiteley 1939-1992) 1970 . (Whiteley 1979: 1) Whiteley also made images of the beach, such as his yellowish painting and collage work The beach II, which he painted on a brief visit to Australia before his return to London and his winning of a fellowship to America. Pridham paid $2.5 million for the work, via the art consultant Anita Archer, who had secured the . Email: info@justinmiller.art, Tuesday Friday: 10am 5pm We were gypsies. Depicting the busy intersection of roads surrounding the iconic Parisian monument the Arc de Triomphe, this expressive drawing pulsates with energy. Join the list for early access. Instead of the bush or the desert, Sydneys Lavender Bay was Bretts ground zero. New Visitors: To utilise all the features of this site you will need to register a new account . Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Olley are halfway there, perhaps but what of the current-day stars? 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. Home Delivery not available in all areas. . Over the years, with help larger areas were added, transforming the unused railway land into an intimately landscaped guerrilla garden. Brett Whiteley Lavender Bay in the Rain, 1987 4 colour screen print 39 3/5 29 3/10 in | 100.5 74.5 cm Edition 45/75 Part of a limited edition set Contact for price Contact Gallery Nanda\Hobbs Sydney Get notifications for similar works Create Alert Want to sell a work by this artist? The western side of the roof has large skylights. cost) every 4 weeks unless cancelled as per full Terms and Conditions. In London he was an instant success in the . Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. Tracey Moffatt this week represents Australian at the Venice Biennale with a major exhibition an honour bestowed upon Fiona Hall two years prior. Growing up in Longueville, a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at The Scots School, Bathurst and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill. Enlarge. Subscription automatically renews at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Henris Armchair, from the Lavender Bay series, surpasses previous record of $5.4m for Sidney Nolans First-class Marksman from his Ned Kelly series. The view from the house including railway land, parklands, Lavender Bay foreshore and the Lavender bay waters provided a rich palette for the paintings and artwork created by Brett Whiteley during his most productive "Lavender Bay phase". Of these major works, most were painted at Walker Street and took in some aspect of the house interiors and/or its environs.[1]. Canary Island palms: "Clark Gardens" 1978, "The turquoise prince" 1979, "The split second summer began" 1979, for example. The Whiteley painting with Menzies Catherine Baxendale and Justin Turner. Every purchase supports the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Open daily The immediate setting of 1 Walker Street assists in the understanding of his enormous creative output; the birds, the trees, the harbour and its icons. [5][1], Across the many works featuring Lavender Bay, these key elements are all present with their spatial order rearranged according to poetic and compositional priorities. Their home became a "scene" well-managed by Wendy. [1], After the Whiteleys purchased the house in 1974, it was altered and reinstated to a single dwelling. (Save 17%), Receive the latest offers. Each payment, once made, is non-refundable, subject to law. Whiteley's return to Australia in 1969 heralded a new preoccupation with colour and beauty. [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. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. Jenna Gribbon, April studio, parting glance, 2021. The Australian Digital Subscription costs $8 billed approximately 4 weekly for the first 12 weeks. unknown author., The Canberra times, 'Sydney artist Brett Whiteley wins Archibald Prize', Ainslie, 22 Jan 1977, (illus.). Whiteley has collaged the monument itself and surrounded it with bold and gestural strokes of swiftly applied charcoal. It has primarily black on one side and has an image of his wife Wendy in a bathtub, seen from behind. A number of prominent trees and distinct vegetation are also included in his art which highlights the importance of these vegetated areas. Its not the art created by these women that has stopped them from forcefully entering the national imagination, but their inability to meet the criteria for male art genius. 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. 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. . ", The house was one of a row of five Federation houses next to Clark Park. Instead, its the eccentric, larrikin art blokes with macho or gothic subject matter or who assumed the mantel after Bretts death Adam Cullen, Ben Quilty and Mike Parr et al. [8]:8[4] After the house renovations, Brett could work from his Lavender Bay studio in Walker Street. This view - including interiors and exterior scenery - was to be the subject of many of Whiteley's iconic paintings. The locally significant garden, also functions as an important memorial space for the remains of Brett Whiteley and their daughter, Arkie Whiteley contributing further to a potential social value.[1]. His wife Wendy appears as "Delish". Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 - 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. [1][6], In 1970 Brett met young sculptor Joel Elenberg in Melbourne and for a decade the pair shared an intense friendship. His work became highly desired by collectors, especially his large-scale, brilliantly-coloured interiors and landscapes, including Big Orange (sunset), which were strongly influenced by French artist Henri Matisse. 1974 Modifications by Brett and Wendy Whiteley include: Tower and attic level, internal walls removed and planning opened up; enclosed verandas re-opened, enlargement and enclosure of the southern verandas and creation of studio space, new windows, floor boards and entries, 1978 Dressing room and bathroom on the first floor adjacent to the kitchen, 1992 Wendy Whiteley commenced restoration of the adjoining RailCorp land into a garden, 1999 Ground floor studio made more accessible, reorganisation of the laundry and enlargement of the kitchen. 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. [1][8]:8,10[6], In 1981 Brett rented a studio at Reiby Place in Circular Quay. Instead of creating straight portraits of their subjects, which try to control and glorify our perception of great figures, recent films like Jackie and Casting JonBent expose the very process of cinematic myth-making. [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). Page 1. The west elevation has been modified and has a set of windows along the first floor level. Whiteley appears as a character in the book Falling Towards England by Clive James under the name Dibbs Buckley. [1][8]:8[9], Whiteley was one of a collective of writers, musicians, artists and performers that lived, worked, performed and exhibited at the Yellow House at 59 Macleay St, Potts Point from 1970 to 1972. 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. BRETT WHITELEY (1939-92) RARE Original ltd edition signed exhibition poster 1980 AU $9,500.00 Local pickup or Best Offer Brett Whiteley : Studio : Archival Quality Art Print AU $81.74 AU $60.71 postage or Best Offer SPONSORED Brett Whiteley : My armchair : Archival Quality Art Print AU $81.74 AU $60.71 postage or Best Offer Close. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. Photograph: Menzies Art Brands 81.5 x 59.5 : The Dove. A sculpture by Joel Elenberg titled "Head" was placed by Brett and Joel under this tree. Australian artist Brett Whiteley was an addict, a painter working intuitively from the messy material of his life, commercially successful but always perilously close to destitution. The painting was sold to an unnamed Sydney private art collector during the Menzies Art Brands auction in Sydney. But there is something else at play in Bogles documentary: I fear that it inadvertently speaks to the ongoing gender heist in Australian art. Later he bought the top level and combined his living and studio spaces. Brett Whiteley's house and visual curtilage is of state heritage significance for its historic association with nationally and internationally renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley AO. Please call 1800 070 535. Some rail artefacts, found while clearing the land were incorporated into the landscaping, all of these features are documented in detail in the publication on the garden titled "Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden" by Janet Hawley in 2015. 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. Compare auction performance of Whiteley Brett . Fig tree: "Moreton Bay fig" 1975, "Moreton Bay fig" 1979 (etching), for example. The seller was Elizabeth Evatt, widow of the renowned barrister Clive Evatt QC, who bought the painting directly from the artist in 1975, a year after it was created. 'That's a good idea.' Wendy looks at me and smiles. The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. He lived there from 1987 and moved there permanently following his divorce from Wendy in 1989 and travelled extensively. Some internal walls have been removed to allow Whiteley to work in the sitting room level as well as the studio level. Here the artist has hand-painted and glazed upon a ceramic dish fine sprigs of blossom, possibly peach or plum. The foreground includes a mature Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla), and fig trees along Walker Street Reserve. Men are geniuses. The ironic words of Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner who visited Sydney last fortnight for. Sydney: Bay Books, p 185. Green sold the house to Abraham Wallace Taylor, storekeeper, in 1908. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. [1][4][10], Whiteley's Lavender Bay phase constituted a substantial and highly significant part of his artistic career and this is well attested by both the prolific output and the successive years of critical acclaim that his works of this period attracted - not least the impressive list of major prizes won during the 1970s. 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. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Please call us on 1800 070 535 and well help resolve the issue or try again later. 1 Walker Street, together with the other four houses built in 1908 form a townscape row for developer and alderman Henry Green, are of local heritage significance as it interprets part of the form of the early beach head at Lavender Bay before the 1890s landfill and Clark Park adjacent to 1 Walker Street is also locally significant as it incorporates the 1866 public reserve that enveloped the early Lavender Bay beach head.[1]. Monday to Friday 7:30am 6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 7:00am 11:30am (AEST), App or digital edition only customer? Many of his most awarded paintings were undertaken at the house with the interiors and its waterscape and landscape environs featuring prominently in many of his major works.[1]. At auction, a number of Picassos paintings have sold for more than $100 million. Each payment, once made, is non-refundable, subject to law. vegetated foreshore: "Clark Gardens" 1978, "The turquoise prince" 1979, "The split second summer began" 1979, for example. Copyright 2005 2015 Etching House All works are copyright the respective artist, We Sell, Buy, trade and handle consignments, call rolf on, WORKS ILLUSTRATED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE FOR SALE SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY -, All works are copyright the respective artist. Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day, Art Gallery of NSW After the first 12 weeks, the cost is $40 billed approximately 4 weekly. Allow up to 5 days for home delivery to commence (10 days in WA). Brett Whiteley died in 1992. [1], As a highly personalised harbourside residence of a celebrity artist and his family and continues in the ownership of the family, the house is highly intact in the context of the modified built form occupied by Brett Whiteley between 1969 and 1989. 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. As the place where he spent most of his artistic life in Australia, Brett Whiteley's house provides a rare insight into the workings of one of Australia's prominent artists. A valid active email address and Australian mobile phone number are required for account set up. The building was converted to two flats c.1929. The Australian Digital + Weekend Paper Subscription 12 Month Plan costs $416 (min. As he said: "To draw animals, one has to work at white heat because they move so much, and partly because it is sometimes painful to feel what one guesses the animal 'feels' from inside."