The Sydney home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art Gallery of NSW in an “extraordinary” cultural gift LindaMorrissmh
The Lavender Bay home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art Gallery of NSW in an “extraordinary” cultural gift to the state of NSW.
Almost 2000 artworks, drawn from across the breadth of Brett Whiteley’s celebrated career, will be left jointly to the art gallery and the Brett Whiteley Foundation. . “It would be almost impossible to run it as a museum, having knowledge of what it costs to do this kind of thing. This house needs a family again. It would be lovely to think of a creative family but it would be enough if they loved it, and lived in it.
“Certainly this is Brett’s legacy, but it is also mine and my daughter’s because we made it happen,” Wendy said. As one of the few artist studios open to the Australian public, Wendy regards the Brett Whiteley Studio as an important source of inspiration for young artists and a corrective to her ex-husband’s rock star reputation. “That’s where his real life was,” she said.
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