Brett Whiteley painting smashes Australian art auction record

Brett Whiteley painting smashes Australian art auction record

Price estimates for Henri's Armchair,from the artist's iconic Lavender Bay series,had ranged from $5 million to $7 million.

  • byLinda Morris

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Brett Whiteley painting set to break Australian art auction records

Brett Whiteley painting set to break Australian art auction records

Henri's Armchair is set to go under the hammer tonight for robust estimates of between $5 and $7 million.

  • byLinda Morris
Who needs Paris when you've got Kangaroo Valley?

Who needs Paris when you've got Kangaroo Valley?

Things are a little different for this year's winners of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Prize.

  • byLinda Morris
Mammoth work gives a full picture of Brett Whiteley

Mammoth work gives a full picture of Brett Whiteley

For eight years,art historian and author Kathie Sutherland has been obsessed by an epic piece of detective work.

  • bySteve Meacham
Good Weekend's Two of Us:the best of 2019

Good Weekend's Two of Us:the best of 2019

The Two of Us has been a weekly presence in Good Weekend for almost 30 years. This is a selection of the best and most thought-provoking columns of 2019,relationships that underline the pain and joy of human connection.

'It's been described as hippy chic',Wendy Whiteley talks boho

'It's been described as hippy chic',Wendy Whiteley talks boho

Wendy Whiteley talks about her favourite fashion era – just don’t call it boho.

  • byGeorgie Gordon
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An opera on Brett Whiteley? He would have found it weird

An opera on Brett Whiteley? He would have found it weird

On the eve of the premiere of Opera Australia's Whiteley,his ex-wife Wendy reveals why she agreed to it (with provisos).

  • byLinda Morris
Buyer beware:Wendy Whiteley warns art collectors of fake paintings

Buyer beware:Wendy Whiteley warns art collectors of fake paintings

In the wake of yet another art scandal,the former wife of artist Brett Whiteley wants buyers to “check the history of the work as best as you can".

  • byGabriella Coslovich
Whiteley painting bought for $1.5 million is bathed in doubt
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Whiteley painting bought for $1.5 million is bathed in doubt

Questions have been raised over a painting left out of a new definitive catalogue of Brett Whiteley works,in a fresh scandal that could wipe millions from the value of some art investments.

  • byGabriella Coslovich
Brett Whiteley's personal message to mum revealed

Brett Whiteley's personal message to mum revealed

Brett Whiteley was more than the sum of his best-known works of Sydney Harbour and female nudes,a new retrospective shows.

  • byLinda Morris
Sinister spaces in Rothschild,Baldessin and Whiteley

Sinister spaces in Rothschild,Baldessin and Whiteley

Curators,no less than artists,play with space,creating enclosures from expansiveness. A memorable example of this liberty is the large show Baldessin/Whiteley:Parallel Visions at the NGV Australia.

  • byRobert Nelson