A down right bargain at $6.25 million. What a masterpiece:
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12925342
New Record for Australian Art Sale at $6.25 Million
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I’d like that picture in my house, but don’t have a wall or a bank balance big enough.
I always wonder what it must be like to have both.
Corona wasnt strong enough
They'll display in a gallery for ten years and then flip it for $10m.
Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.[1] He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, England, Fiji and the United States.
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
I quite like the pre-school finger painted aesthetic.