Held on Tuesday, 7 August at 6pm, Melbourne
The Bonhams & Goodman Fine Art auction on Tuesday 7 August will be the most significant sale conducted by the company in Australia. It recently announced the consignment of an iconic nude by the celebrated Australian artist Brett Whiteley with pre-sale estimates of $1.4mil-1.8mil as well as an impressive work by Sir Arthur Streeton with an auction estimate of $400,000-500,000. Also included in the auction is a particularly important self portrait by James Gleeson and three major works by Albert Tucker, widely considered to be the fastest appreciating artist in the current Australian market.
The Whiteley oil titled Justine depicts the artist's wife, Wendy, sun-baking on Sydney's Bondi Beach reading the novel, Justine by the modernist writer Lawrence Durrell. The painting was exhibited at the Whiteley Studio, the museum established in Surrey Hills, Sydney to mark the life and work of the artist until it (the picture) was sold privately by the Whiteley estate in 2004.
This important painting is appearing at auction for the first time having been consigned by a private Sydney collector. Justine is expected to break the auction record for a painting in this genre by Whiteley or by any other Australian artist. National Head of Art at Bonhams & Goodman, Geoffrey Smith said, "The Whiteley is an icon of 20th Century Australian art and we are delighted to have been appointed to conduct the sale."
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