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ARTICLES RELATED TO Brett Whiteley - Early years | | | |  Brett Whiteley - Early years: Encyclopedia II - Brett Whiteley - Success with Archibald and other prizesIn the late seventies Brett Whiteley had great success with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, winning all of their major prizes twice. These were the Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prizes, considered some of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious art prizes in Australia.
His wins were:
1976
Archibald Prize: Self Portrait in the Studio
Sulman Prize: Interior with Time Past
1977
Wynne Prize: The Jacaranda Tree (On Sydney Harbour) ...
See also:Brett Whiteley, Brett Whiteley - Early years, Brett Whiteley - London: series of works, Brett Whiteley - New York, Brett Whiteley - Fiji, Brett Whiteley - Appropriations, Brett Whiteley - Alchemy, Brett Whiteley - Sydney harbour and landscapes, Brett Whiteley - Success with Archibald and other prizes, Brett Whiteley - Difficult pleasure, Brett Whiteley - Later years, Brett Whiteley - Reference Read more here: » Brett Whiteley: Encyclopedia II - Brett Whiteley - Success with Archibald and other prizes |
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| | | | Brett Whiteley - Early years: Encyclopedia II - Brett Whiteley - Later years Increasingly dependent on alcohol, and then addicted to heroin, Whiteley's work output declined, although its market value continued to climb. He made several attempts to dry out and get off drugs completely, all ultimately unsuccessful. In 1989, he divorced Wendy, whom he had always credited as his 'muse', and on June 15, 1992 he died of a heroin overdose alone in a motel in Thirroul, north of Wollongong, New South Wales.
In 1999 Brett Whiteley's painting The Jacaranda Tree (1977) which had won the Wynne Prize, sold for $1,982,000, a record for a modern Australian painter. Before this, his previous highest selling wor ...
See also:Brett Whiteley, Brett Whiteley - Early years, Brett Whiteley - London: series of works, Brett Whiteley - New York, Brett Whiteley - Fiji, Brett Whiteley - Appropriations, Brett Whiteley - Alchemy, Brett Whiteley - Sydney harbour and landscapes, Brett Whiteley - Success with Archibald and other prizes, Brett Whiteley - Difficult pleasure, Brett Whiteley - Later years, Brett Whiteley - Reference Read more here: » Brett Whiteley: Encyclopedia II - Brett Whiteley - Later years |
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