Lot 8
Silver Eye 1988
screenprint, ed. 28/75
signed lower right: brettwhiteley
titled and editioned lower left
76.5 x 73cm (image); 120 x 118.5cm (frame)
Estimate $16,000 - $20,000
Gallery Gaia, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Bonhams, Sydney, 11 May 2022, lot 1
Private collection, Melbourne
Brett Whiteley: 'Birds', Recent Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and One Screenprint, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, 5 - 19 July 1988, cat. no. 65 (as "Silvery Eye/Japanese: Fragility") (another example)
New Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 27 November - 20 December 1989 (another example)
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p. 95, cat. no. 100 (illus., p. 115 another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol. 5, p. 190, cat. no. 154P (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 841
© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2025
Prints and Multiples
AUCTION
Sale: IT098
6:00pm - 3 December 2025
Timed Online Auction (Melbourne)
VIEWING
Fri 28 - Sun 30 Nov, 10am - 4pm
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CONTACT
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