{"product_id":"whiteley-brett-cat-18108","title":"Brett Whiteley 'Cat'","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrett Whiteley’s The Cat is interior life turned electric. All ultramarine heat and sun-struck yellow, it distills the Lavender Bay studio into a charged field where colour, space, and sensation are pushed to full intensity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis interior scene borrows the language of still life, but only in name. The vase of native flowers, the blue-and-white ceramic vessel, and the sculptural form on its pedestal are all set in motion. Nothing is permitted to sit quietly. The wicker chair seems to rock, harbour light enters as movement rather than view, and the cat sleeps at the centre of it all, unbothered, like a small point of gravity holding the room together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhiteley’s gesture is simple and radical: he refuses stillness. The objects are not arranged for contemplation so much as absorbed into a single animated environment. Inside and outside cease to function as separate categories; they become conditions of the same experience. The studio is no longer depicted as a space, but as a continuum of light, objects, and air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rare, charged impression of Whiteley at his most fluent, where domestic space becomes not just subject matter, but a kind of living energy. Bold, immersive, and quietly irreverent, The Cat is less about stillness than presence; the pleasure of a room fully switched on. Whiteley’s work is represented across Australian public collections and internationally at the Tate Gallery in London and MoMA in New York. An adjunct of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, his studio has become a permanent public gallery. For collector’s of important Australian art, Whiteley is a prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/collections\/brett-whiteley\"\u003eBrett WHITELEY\u003c\/a\u003e (1939 - 1992)\u003cbr\u003e'Cat' 1980\u003cbr\u003eoffset lithograph on paper\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage Size\u003c\/i\u003e: 84 x 82 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions\u003c\/i\u003e: 120 x 93 x 4 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigned\u003c\/i\u003e: signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: A\/P 4 'the cat' brett whiteley bears artist's stamp with initials below image\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComes with Letter of Provenance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExhibited: probably Brett Whiteley: Drawings and Gouaches, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, April – May 1981, cat. 8 (another example) The Entire Collection of Graphics of Brett Whiteley: 1961–1981, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 20 Ju.Literature: Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: The Complete Graphics: 1961 – 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 59, p. 42 (illus., another example) Brett Whiteley: The Graphics: 1961-1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition:very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(c) Brett Whiteley \/ Copyright Agency\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art \u0026 Collectors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45188632182854,"sku":null,"price":70000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0499\/8229\/files\/whiteley-brett-cat-118108.jpg?v=1781656712","url":"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/products\/whiteley-brett-cat-18108","provider":"Art and Collectors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}