Page 1. Then please print, fill out and fax or email it back to the contacts on the form. It was built during 1905 by Henry Green. The house is two storey with painted brick walls and contemporary alterations. The Whiteleys bought the house in 1974 and began converting it back into a single dwelling, knocking down walls to open up the living space, installing arches and eventually adding a distinctive tower. [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. These Brett Whiteley fine art prints titled Grey Harbour 1978, 15 great dog pisses of Paris 1989, Lavender bay in the Continued Each payment, once made, is non-refundable, subject to law. It has primarily black on one side and has an image of his wife Wendy in a bathtub, seen from behind. 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. And yet its presented only as an epilogue in the documentary, which mostly retells us what we already know about Brett. [1], The following modifications have been made to the site:[1], As at 4 October 2017, Brett Whiteley's House and Visual Curtilage, at 1 Walker Street, Lavender Bay is of state significance for its historic association with internationally and nationally acclaimed Australian artist Brett Whiteley AO. "[5][1], Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney in 1939 and grew up at Longueville a harbour-side suburb in North Sydney. Lavender Bay was run down, a dead end, but to us it seemed magical. [1] As well as being his family home and studio, the house, its setting and views inspired a substantial body of award-winning and influential works of art including paintings, works on paper and installations. The land incorporating Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden is now subdivided from the rest of the RailCorp land. 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. the groups of three Washingtonia robusta palms: examples include "Lavender Bay in the rain" 1981, "Sydney Harbour by night" 1981, "Lavender Bay at dusk" 1984, "Big orange" 1974 for example. The house and its views over Lavender Bay are an important link to his most awarded and popular works. View and compare similar lots prices. This picture predates and precedes the artists famous images created several years later following his return to Paris at the age of 50 which culminated in a highly popular exhibition held soon after at the AGNSW. After a fire in 1826 he built a large two storey home called Brisbane House and another called Grantham. Print. Unique Brett Whiteley Lavender Bay Posters designed and sold by artists. [5] Some of these works include the Archibald Prize winning "Self portrait in the studio" 1976, Sir John Sulman Prize winning "Interior with time past" 1976 and Wynne Prize for "The jacaranda tree" (on Sydney Harbour) 1977. [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. [1][6], In 1970 Brett met young sculptor Joel Elenberg in Melbourne and for a decade the pair shared an intense friendship. In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in 2012 Wendy described how they came to stay at Lavender Bay:[9], "We kind of fell in love with the bay and Arkie was sick of being shunted around," she says. [1][12], Since the publication of the book Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley in 2015, the announcement of the lease by the then Premier Mike Baird in 2016 and its listing on popular tourism sites, the garden has gained popularity. Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most celebrated artists best known for his sensual and lyrical paintings of interiors, nudes and harbour scenes. cost) every 4 weeks unless cancelled as per full Terms and Conditions. In 1960 an Italian scholarship took him to London where his great natural talent for drawing, his lack of inhibitions and taste for exotic influences made the 21 year old painter an exciting prospect for London dealers. Wendy Whiteley's unique "guerrilla" garden is gaining popularity and increased visitation contributing to a communal "sense of place". . After leaving school he took night classes in drawing at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney while holding down a job at an advertising agency. 2 Colour Screenprint. Both have since been demolished. - the bay and harbour waterscape: vast area of water as a colour field dominates some major works as the "Big Orange" 1974, "The Balcony 2" 1975, "The jacaranda tree (on Sydney Harbour)" 1977, "Lavender Bay with palms" 1974, "Sydney Harbour in the rain" 197677,'Grey Harbour' 1978 for example. They turn inside-out the usual conventions of dramatisations and archival footage, showing us how cinema has helped build historical events into legends. Brett Whiteley's painting Henri's Armchair, from his Lavender Bay series, has sold at auction for $6.136m. Still, many Sydneysiders forget its existence. [1], Lavender Bay scenery from 1 Walker Street has been depicted by Whiteley in numerous works: paintings, drawings, etchings, silkscreen prints, onto objects such as vases, plates and pots. 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. 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? Home Delivery not available in all areas. Later, we bought it and knocked down the (internal) walls. The painting was sold to an unnamed Sydney private art collector during the Menzies Art Brands auction in Sydney. Sydney: Bay Books, p 185. 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. This automatically renews to be charged as $32 (min. 37 x 55 cm : Study for Still Life with Bonsai . 2 sizes 70.5x63cm, 95.4x85.2cm [BACK TO PREVIOUS PAGE], Email or Ph: The film over-mythologises the mans personality at the cost of understanding the artworks and their place in history. See opening hours (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. Whiteley was awarded two Archibald Prizes, three Wynne Prizes and two Sir John Sulman Prizes, including all three prizes in 1978-a feat that remains unique in Australian art history. After Taylor's death in 1929 Sarah Taylor took in lodgers and it is possible that the conversion to two flats occurred at this time. We haven't opened yet, but somehow you found us. Milson provided fresh water and ballast for passing ships as well as grazing cattle and producing milk. Thence by decent, the collection of the artists sister, Frannie Hopkirk. From there he and his family stayed in Fiji before returning to Sydney in 1969. During 1979 he won a number of national prizes and settled at lavender Bay, Sydney. Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. Please call 1800 070 535. [1][4], Between 1971 and 1975 Brett worked in the sitting room of the house at 1 Walker Street and undertook his larger works at a studio at the Old Gas Works in Waverton (which for a short time he shared with artist Tim Storrier. [1][3], The land upon which the Whiteley House stands was purchased from the Milson family by speculative builder Henry Green in 1905. Thanks for visiting Australia's complete online poster, art print and framing store. A sculpture by Joel Elenberg titled "Head" was placed by Brett and Joel under this tree. The exceedingly thin layer of Australian artists with whom the general public is acquainted are still generally white men with big personalities, self-destructive urges and muses. Lavender Bay 1 1973, pencil and ink on paper, 74.0 x 56.0 cm, private collection; . Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Lavender Bay In The Rain 1987 screenprint 43/75 101 x 74cm. See www.theaustralian.com.au/subscriptiontermsfor full details. National Gallery of Victoria reaps reward from Daniel Andrews' $1.4bn cultural precinct splurge, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. It was established by the artist Martin Sharp in 1970 and inspired by Van Gogh's Yellow House in Arles, France. Like Kingston, he was a contributing cartoonist for the controversial satirical magazine "Oz", co-edited by Sharp. [1][7], A well-publicised drug charge in Fiji saw the Whiteleys' permanent return to Australia. Prices after the first 12 months may be varied as per full Terms and Conditions. The stability of home ownership and the freedom from rent payments allowed Kingston to become an artist, Fairlie says. Weekend Paper is for The Weekend Australian delivered on a Saturday. The interior contents and the external environs of the house at 1 Walker Street is of state significance for research potential.[1]. Australian Galleries, Melbourne label attached verso (no.9451); [8]:8 After visiting a friend[a] who lived in the downstairs flat of the house at 1 Walker Street, Brett, Wendy and their daughter, Arkie, then aged five years,[8] moved there in 1969, renting the upstairs flat. Share. 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]. It also explains how you can access or seek correction of your personal information, how you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with a complaint of that nature. Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most celebrated artists. Some of these key scenic elements that form part of the viewshed include the bay and harbour waterscape; the Lavender Bay shorelines; the group of three Washingtonia robusta palms at the foreshore; Lavender Bay ferry wharf; moored yachts; vegetated foreshore, Fig Trees and Canary Island palms. Important Info New Visitors: To utilise all the features of this site you will need to register a new account - to do this you can click on the "Person" icon in the header or the "Save Favourite" or . 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 is separated from the harbour by railway sidings and a brick viaduct, parkland, foreshore reserve and a garden created by Wendy Whiteley on unused railway land from 1992. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Whiteley symbolised his irrational obsession with the colours blue and gold in much of his work. Another in the series was a more abstracted Woman in the bath II, which owed a debt to his yellow and red abstract paintings of the early sixties. Watching promotional interviews ahead of the release last week, I read a one-word descriptor beneath Wendys name as she spoke: widow. Paris is so sensual, beautiful, flirtatious, mischievous, arrogant, orderly, civilised. [1], As at 17 July 2017, the house is in excellent condition and continues to be the home of Wendy Whiteley. Lavender Bay. This view - including interiors and exterior scenery - was to be the subject of many of Whiteley's iconic paintings. Sydney NSW 2000, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander design. The white washed sitting room has panoramic views of Sydney Harbour with views of Lavender Bay Jetty and the surrounding bay. Thence by descent; Frannie Hopkirk, New South Wales, the artists sister; Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1997; Deutscher and Hackett, Australian + International Fine Art and Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30/11/2016, Lot No. Brett Whiteley's ceramics are among his rarest and most delicately lyrical works of art. He won the Wynne Prize in 1984 for "The South Coast after rain". Tracey Moffatt this week represents Australian at the Venice Biennale with a major exhibition an honour bestowed upon Fiona Hall two years prior. His farewell to abstraction, Summer at Sigean, was a record of his honeymoon in France. Its a perceptive observation, but in the film the story of Wendy Whiteley is, for the most part, missing: shes portrayed merely as his teenage sweetheart, with whom he had a child, descended into heroin addiction and divorced in his 40s. Sometimes the Harbour Bridge appears, or the Opera House or there are glimpses of built environment across Milson's Point or, rarely even Harry Seidler's Blues Point tower. Prices after the first 12 months may be varied as per full Terms and Conditions. After meeting Bryan Robertson, the director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Whiteley was included in the 1961 group show 'Recent Australian Painting,' where his Untitled red painting was bought by the Tate Gallery. 77 x 79 cm : Spring at Oberon Sept 1979. Its a very conventional film for an unconventional character. Jenna Gribbon, Silver Tongue, 2019, Price ranges of small prints by Pablo Picasso. The downstairs space was converted into Brett Whiteley's studio. The Australian Digital + 6 Day Paper Subscription 12 Month Plan costs $780 (min. 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]. Renewals occur unless cancelled as per full Terms and Conditions. Brett Whiteley was born in 1939 and studied at the Julian Ashton School in 1957-59. View and compare similar lots prices. Prices after the first 12 months may be varied as per full Terms and Conditions. 42 x 52.5 cm : Please Rain. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for RARE Brett Favre 1995 Pinnacle Dial Corporation Promo DC-11 Green Bay Packers at the best online prices at eBay! "She was just about to be five and she wanted to go to a school where she wouldn't be dragged out of six months later. The doco doesnt add anything new to this story. Each payment, once made, is non-refundable, subject to law. 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. Allow up to 5 days for home delivery to commence (10 days in WA). They visited a Sydney friend, Rollin Schlicht, in a ramshackle Federation house - the rent was cheap, so they moved in. [1][5], In 1974 the Whiteleys purchased the whole property and worked with architect Tony Edye who helped return the building to a single dwelling making the most of the views and providing a studio space. Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Olley are halfway there, perhaps but what of the current-day stars? Email: info@justinmiller.art, Tuesday Friday: 10am 5pm [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. Wendy Whiteley on art, gentrification and Brett: 'I felt a bit Whiteleyed-out', New survey paints grim picture of gender balance in Australian visual arts, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Even more crucial to Whiteley's future was his success in winning the International prize at the second 'Biennale de Paris' (International Biennale for Young Artists), which brought with it the excitement, glamour and disadvantages of world publicity. [4] The Whiteleys had been in London, New York and Fiji. Phone 7 days, 9 am to 9 pm, 0413 007 054, Terms |Links | Email Rolf on rolf@etchinghouse.com.au That tired old story.. [1], The Whiteley House is located on the 20 hectares (50 acres) that was granted to James Milson between 1821 and 1825. [6][8]:8 Brett spent three months in Bali with his dying friend Joel in 1980. [1], The garden on RailCorp land is now secured by a 30-year lease. 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. 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. 81.5 x 59.5 : The Dove. vegetated foreshore: "Clark Gardens" 1978, "The turquoise prince" 1979, "The split second summer began" 1979, for example. Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most celebrated artists, best known for his sensual and lyrical paintings of interiors, nudes and harbour scenes. Prices after the introductory pricing period may be varied as per full Terms and Conditions. Please call us on 1800 070 535 and well help resolve the issue or try again later. This automatically renews to be billed as $60 (min. Be sure you never miss out on new products, our sales Green sold the house to Abraham Wallace Taylor, storekeeper, in 1908. Ms Upton said the iconic home, its setting and views are of state heritage significance for their historic association with internationally acclaimed Australian artist Brett Whiteley AO. After establishing himself as an artist abroad, Whiteley famously resided in the harbour-side suburb of Lavender Bay and his large-scale, brilliantly-coloured paintings from this period are . (Save 17%), Receive the latest offers. This work has a wonderful provenance having been in the collection of Whiteleys daughter Arkie. Instead of the bush or the desert, Sydney's Lavender Bay was Brett's ground zero. [1], The following provides a brief list of the recurring theme and elements featured in some of his paintings- this list is not exhaustive by any account, rather it is provided as examples that illustrate his works portraying the harbour:[1]. View sold price and similar items: BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992) LAVENDER BAY IN THE RAIN 1981, DIGITAL GICLEE PRINT, EDITION: 1/250. [1], After the Whiteleys purchased the house in 1974, it was altered and reinstated to a single dwelling. Men are geniuses. The ironic words of Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner who visited Sydney last fortnight for. Pelican II is a spectacular and rare bronze sculpture by Whiteley inspired by date palms. The notion that art can be available to all and threaded into environmental aims in the public sphere, outside the hushed, rarefied walls of galleries is palpable in the policies of many councils today. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. The Australian Digital Subscription costs $8 billed approximately 4 weekly for the first 12 weeks. omen are a gender. Raucous parties, fuelled by loud music and alcohol, drew the famous and infamous - writers, poets, artists, actors and musicians. View Lavender Bay in the Rain, 1981 (1981) By Whiteley Brett; archival pigment print; 76 x 74 cm ; Edition. It is lush and emerald-green, wound with paths, hand-carved rails, stone sculptures and tiny birds popping out from the long shadows in the afternoon. AU$68.75
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. 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". Henris Armchair, from the Lavender Bay series, surpasses previous record of $5.4m for Sidney Nolans First-class Marksman from his Ned Kelly series. Several other artists joined the eruption of creativity at Luna Park in the mid-1970s, including Garry Shead. After purchase, this subscription may be managed in your Google Account Settings. Kingston was invited to assist fellow artist Martin Sharp in giving Luna Park, at the south-eastern end of the bay, a pop art makeover. 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. Many of these successively won Australia's most prestigious art prizes. [1][4][10], In 1975 he was awarded the Sir William Anglis Memorial Art Prize, Melbourne. View Lavender Bay in the Rain (1981) By Whiteley Brett; archival pigment print; 84 x 83 cm; Edition. 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. I love the stoniness and creaminess, that wonderful soiled magnolia feeling. Important Info. The west elevation has been modified and has a set of windows along the first floor level. 35. The attic tower has windows on all sides and the adjacent gable end has been glazed for the Attic bedroom. His paintings during these years were influenced by the modernist British art of the sixties - particularly the works of William Scott and Roger Hilton - and were of brownish abstract forms. This view - including interior scenes and exterior scenery - was to be the subject of many of Whiteley's iconic paintings. Payment will be charged to your Google Account. 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 Brett Whiteleys painting Henris Armchair, from his Lavender Bay series, has sold at auction for $6.136m. Their home became a "scene" well-managed by Wendy. [1][8]:7, The house known as No.1 Walker Street is at the lower south western end of the group of five Federation style houses overlooking Clark Park and Lavender Bay. At the films launch in Sydney this month, producer Sue Clothier said the question occurred to her: What if the story of Brett is the story of Wendy? 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. 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. ", The house was one of a row of five Federation houses next to Clark Park. [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). 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. Subscribe to one of our plans to get the best price over 12 months. The building was converted to two flats c.1929. He was an officer in charge of the ship called "Phoenix" that housed convicts moored in this bay. Instead of the bush or the desert, Sydneys Lavender Bay was Bretts ground zero. 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. They may be out there, but our museums and galleries havent been looking: last years Countess report found that only 34% of the works in state museum collections are by women. Monday to Friday 7:30am 6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 7:00am 11:30am (AEST), App or digital edition only customer? In 1960, aged 21, Whiteley left Australia on a Travelling Art Scholarship (judged by Sir Russell Drysdale at the Art Gallery of New South Wales), and by 1961 had settled in London where his work was shown at the Whitechapel and Marlborough galleries. 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. The idyllic bay provided both inspiration and a haven for a bohemian counter-culture to thrive in a socially and politically turbulent time. He left before the year was up and artist Peter Kingston soon moved in. See www.theaustralian.com.au/subscriptiontermsfor full details. The fig tree was drawn and painted by Brett Whiteley in numerous sensually anthropomorphised versions. Sell with Artsy Artist Series moored yachts: many works that feature the harbour and Lavender Bay include various renditions of the yachts for example. After the first 12 weeks, the cost is $40 billed approximately 4 weekly. Wendy Whiteley in her Secret Garden in Sydneys Lavender Bay. In 1962 he won second prize in the Biennale de Paris (International Biennale for Young Artists) and had his first solo exhibition.
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