Brett Whiteley 'Towards Sculpture 1 ' landscape Like a thorned flower or

Like a thorned flower or poisoned fruit

Critics were struck by the series’s undercurrent of unease: this was an artist acutely attuned to the precarity of youth

Dated 1953

and cinephiles

She has exhibited widely and is represented in public institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria

Brett Whiteley 'Towards Sculpture 1 ' landscape Like a thorned flower orAfter reaching the echelons of Australian art, Brett Whiteley reflected that even when he was painting abstractions, in a way I was painting the nude, just out of specific definition. The nude is a pivotal form in Whiteley's lexicon, a woman who is wrought from curves, great sweeps of line that settle into a sublime topography. Dated 1977, Towards Sculpture 1 is a testament to Whiteleys mastery over the nude. An original, limited edition and hand