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IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN and ABORIGINAL ART Including Works from the Estate of Mary Macha AM Sunday 19 November 2017 Sydney IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART Including works from the Estate of Mary Macha AM Sunday 19 November 2017 Sydney IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART Including works from the estate of Mary Macha AM Sunday 19 November 2017 at 4pm NCJWA Hall, Sydney MELBOURNE VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES PRESS ENQUIRIES Como House Online bidding will be available Merryn Schriever - Director Emma Miller Como Avenue for the auction. 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Ca a i n o d e Jersey Rd l rd Oxfo St S Smith Wi t t d pel S n South Cha St r o Malcolm St s Vi A M Q St River St ct ueen St oria lexandra A o River Ln n T Ya a ce sh Vi ct Tivoli Rd oria Av rra F e re e Rush St ve w a Bonham Rockley Rd y M t S r u c n o To s o Dw k a r Kensington Rd ye L Herring r n Island Pe R a k S p d i e ce r r L St Como Ave n Como Ave Le Como c Park h a Fu l lham Ave d e Av e NCJWA HALL Queen St Williams Rd Williams Rd North Jo h n O e c St n a t S Como Hous ru B H o ld s wo S e rt c Cloverdale Ave h St Vista Grove t B u Wallace Ave rn e ie St Ya rra Wa Balmerino Ave Do J shin R a u To c g iv k la s g o e s to orak n r St n St Canberra Rd St 1 BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992) Platypus, 1970 signed and dated lower right: ‘brett whiteley 1970’ charcoal, collage and applied feathers on paper 72.0 x 53.0cm (28 3/8 x 20 7/8in). $30,000 - 40,000 Provenance Bonython Gallery, Sydney Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) Private collection Goodmans Auctioneers, Australian & European Paintings, Sydney, 3 August 1999, lot 122 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2001 Exhibited Sounds, Paintings, Sculpture, Film, Drawings, Jottings, Innuendos, and Sideglances, Bonython Galleries, Sydney, June 1970; then Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 9 - 30 August 1970 (illus. as screenprint exhibition poster) Related Works Platypus, screenprint, exhibition poster for Australian Galleries, 1970 Platypus, screenprint, advertising poster for Festival of Perth, 1971 Whilst Brett Whiteley’s 1970 exhibitions with There was also sound, as Laurie Thomas Bonython Galleries in Sydney and Australian noted: “A sound like a million cicadas Galleries in Melbourne were uncatalogued pierces the eardrums when you go into Brett and untitled, we can be certain given its use Whiteley’s exhibition at Bonython Gallery. The on the exhibition poster to promote the show cicadas becoming screaming sirens, police that our work, Platypus, was included. With sirens and female sirens, and the medley and his recently completed The American Dream, the cacophony of cities, sex, despair, joy, evil as its centrepiece, the exhibition also included and beauty. This is no cool withdrawal from a 3 metre portrait of Baudelaire as well as ‘a life.”’1 Japanese room, and images of Australia - The Olgas, Kookaburras, Aboriginal totems, We gratefully acknowledge the kind pictures of the Opera House and Sydney assistance of Kathie Sutherland in cataloguing falling into the sea. There were gloriously this work. decorative honeyeaters and frangipanis from the paradise which had rejected him. It was 1. Laurie Thomas, ‘Passion and Power in overwhelming to almost all who viewed it. Whiteley Exhibition’, The Australian, 16 June 1970 4 | BONHAMS IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART | 5 2 TIM STORRIER (BORN 1949) Saddlebag, 1985 signed lower right: ‘Storrier’ charcoal on paper 121.0 x 121.0cm (47 5/8 x 47 5/8in).
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