Joan and Peter Clemenger purchased Brett Whiteley's painting 'The Wren' in 1978. The painting features a blue bird in a yellow grassland with a river and rocky outcrops.
The minute Joan and Peter Clemenger walked into Brett Whiteley ’s exhibition at Australian Galleries in Melbourne in 1978, one painting in particular caught and held their eye., painted by Whiteley that year, featured an exquisite blue bird in an expanse of sun-bleached yellow grassland . Around and across the canvas swept a river with rocky outcrops within and beside it.
“It was one of Whiteley’s more sensible paintings,” Peter Clemenger told Saleroom this week. “It didn’t have bits of wood stuck on it or anything like that. It was a fairly straightforward painting.”The painting depicts farmland near Bathurst, NSW, where Whiteley had attended boarding school and where he would later take many productive painting trips.
D+H rival Smith & Singer art dealers and auctioneers will hold their major sale in Sydney on April 17 with total estimates ranging between $9.058 million and $12.757 million. The 76 lots in theJoan Clemenger died in January 2022. She and Peter Clemenger married in 1956. Peter had begun working in advertising at the age of 16, and joined his father in establishing Clemenger Advertising two years later.
, 1984, in which a phalanx of coloured pencils seems to symbolise some kind of office workers’ protest, is estimated at between $800,000 and $1 million.
Brett Whiteley Painting The Wren Joan Clemenger Peter Clemenger Australian Galleries Melbourne Blue Bird Yellow Grassland River Rocky Outcrops Farmland Bathurst NSW
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