About Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, the United Kingdom, Fiji and the United States. They contained nature and ideas, they contained naturalism but seemed also very invented, and the adventure of them was that they showed the decisions and revisions that had been made while they were painted. In 1959, he won an art scholarship sponsored by the Italian government and judged by Russell Drysdale. He was the youngest living artist to have work purchased by the Tate, a record that still stands. His farewell to abstraction, Summer at Sigean, was a record of his honeymoon in France.
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