Lot 3
Nectar (Addiction), Portrait of Verlaine 1979
etching, ed. 23/75
signed lower right: brettwhiteley
editioned lower left
59 x 45cm (image); 95 x 76cm (frame)
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Brett Whiteley: Birds and Animals, Robin Wilson Gallery, Sydney, 1979 (as "Portrait of Paul Valerie") (another example)
The Entire Collection of the Graphics of Brett Whiteley: 1961-1981, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1981, cat. no. 51 (as "Nectar Addiction - Paul Valerie)
Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: Graphics 1961-1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, p. 33, cat. no. 52 (another example)
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p. 112, cat. no. 50 (another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol. 5, p. 99, cat. no. 97P (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 827
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales.
© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2025
Prints and Multiples
AUCTION
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6:00pm - 3 December 2025
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