Artwork of the Day - Whiteley - Magpie

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
Magpie 1977
Sugarlift aquatint 20/60
50.5 x 50cm (plate size)
75 x 52.5cm (sheet size)
Signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right
Edition number lower left
Edition of 60; 8-10 APs
Printed by Max Miller, Sydney
Publisher: Port Jackson Press, Sydney
no.7812

Birds are among the most important of all Whiteley's subjects.

Barry Pearce Pearce has described Whiteley as “Australia’s most sublime painter of birds, “as essential symbols of the song of creation and the joy of life.” Reference: Barry Pearce (1989), Australian Artists, Australian Birds, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, p.144.

Brett Whiteley is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries, as well as many important public collections both in Australia and overseas.