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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  23 Aug 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  20
• Lot Description:
  Brett Whiteley
  (1939-1992)
  (Erotic Encounter), c.1978
  ink on paper
  53.0 x 63.0cm (20 7/8 x 24 13/16in).
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Sydney, a gift from the artist
• References:
  Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonne, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 64.78 (addendum)
• Notes:
  'I saw a dazzling vision of A Greek In white light of morning with eyes the antique Blue of sky above a foreign sea In worlds on ancient being These eyes of blue salty clarity and all but me and this unseeing. I hung within a ringing drop of fluid beauty, sinking Softly in a green bream of sea, a foreign sea, unknown to me Before I saw by passions formal law. The slanting planes of eye and chin and cheek That glinting formed the vision of the Greek. P.C.'
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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