WHITELEY, Brett (1939-1992)
Untitled, 1965.
Signed and dated lower right.
Ink on Paper
53x65cm (sight) 56x77cm (sheet)

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Greece; Christie's, Melbourne, November 25th 1997, lot 220 (label verso); Ken Hinds Cultural Heritage Collection, Qld.

LITERATURE:
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol.7, p.164, cat. 32.65.

OTHER NOTES:
© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2025.

Related works: Untitled, 1965, black & brown ink on paper (56x77cm) signed and dated lower right, cat. 33.65; Untitled (Abstract), c.1965, tempera, oil & collage on cardboard (73x52cm) cat. 64.65. Provenance: [Probably] Hans and Elspeth Juda, England, a commission when the artist was living in London in the 1960s. Note: A letter from Stuart Purves (Australian Galleries) to the previous owner, dated 29 March 1976, relates that, according to Whiteley, this painting was commissioned by the owner of a spinning plant in Wales who wanted to record for posterity, the factory and its D.H. Lawrence-influenced working scheme.
*Hans and Elsbeth Juda were publisher and assistant editor of The Ambassador, a trade magazine which supported the British textile and fashion industries. It operated from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. They were loyal supporters and collectors of Whiteley's work during the years of his early exhibitions in London.



Estimate $8,000-12,000