Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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Portrait of Brett Whiteley
[Photographer unknown]
# 2191
Silver gelatin photograph measuring 540
x 500 mm, inscribed lower right ‘Monday
22 June 92. To Ning, The Special Moments,
and memories in your life will never
change. They will always be in your heart.
Brett loved you very much, and was very
proud of his mother. Kind regards Janice’.
An extraordinary presentation copy of this
striking photograph of Whiteley, inscribed
upon the artist’s death to his mother Beryl
Whiteley (affectionately known as Ning)
by Janice Spencer, Whiteley’s lover following
his seperation from Wendy Whiteley in the
late 1980s.
Provenance: The Estate of the Late Beryl
Whiteley, Sydney
$ 2,500