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153844
  • Title
    Preliminary sketch for portrait of Patrick White in rocking chair Feb/80 / by Brett Whiteley
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 1189
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    February 1980
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    153844
  • Physical Description
    1 drawing - 58.3 x 35.3 cm, in perspex vitrine frame, 60 x 37 cm - charcoal and gouache collage (head and shoulders) pasted onto larger sheet on which the image is continued in felt-tipped pen
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years.
    Approval for reproduction required:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of new South Wales and Courtesy copyright owner
  • General note

    The finished painting which derives from this preliminary drawing is now held in the New South Wales Parliament House collection
    In his biography of White, David Marr describes the genesis of the portrait: While he worked at Flaws in the Glass, White was having his portrait painted by Brett Whiteley ... Whiteley's turned out to be the finest of the half dozen White allowed to be painted. He caught what is almost impossible for photographs and paintings to show: the ironic play which gives life to White's basilisk face. (Patrick White: A Life, London, 1991, p. 600)
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Title inscribed in ink lower right; artist's monogram stamp 'BW' in circle above inscription
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