Brett Whiteley: Connections
Brett Whiteley The telephone 1976, oil on canvas, 91.8 x 91.3 cm. Gift of Eva and Marc Besen 2001, TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. © Wendy Whiteley
6 November 2010 - 19 March 2011
Eva and Marc Besen have been lifelong admirers of Brett Whiteley’s oeuvre, collecting significant works from 1964 through to 1983. These works follow Whiteley’s artistic exploration through abstraction, figuration, landscape and still life. Whiteley’s uniquely Australian art captures the intellectual and physical journeys that characterised his generation. His uninhibited style celebrated his muse, his friends, artists he admired as well as villains he encountered; and he has become one of Australia’s best known and admired artists. Brett Whitely created a wondrous body of work over his life-time, with each reflecting elements of past work that was influenced by time, location and state of mind.
Brett Whiteley: Connections is indemnified by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria
