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Australian Painter Brett Whiteley Makes $3.9m Record

October 31, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Record breaking Whiteley painting

A new record price was set for Australia’s Brett Whiteley yesterday when his 1976 painting, My Armchair, was sold by the couple that bought it out of his studio for $10,000. T

My Armchair was snapped up by Melbourne art dealer John Playfoot at an auction at Menzies in South Yarra. It sold to a Melbourne-based “private collector” for $3,927,272, including buyer’s premium. The previous record for a Whiteley painting sold at auction was $3.48 million for his 1985 painting The Olgas for Ernest Giles

Brett Whiteley masterpiece sells for record $3.9m at Melbourne auction (Herald Sun)

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