Don't miss out on the headlines from National. Followed categories will be added to My News. Two men hid out in a Melbourne studio, painting exact replicas of Brett Whiteley’s paintings and then sold ...

96 x 62 cm. (37.8 x 24.4 in.), frame: 108 x 68 x 5 cm. 42.5 x 26.7 x 1.9 in.) ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A painting by famed Australian artist Brett Whiteley has sold at auction for A$6.25 million ($4.6 million), setting a new record in the country and underscoring the appeal of art ...

Art dealer Peter Stanley Gant and conservator Mohamed Aman Siddique are accused of forging and selling the paintings, which were sold or offered for sale for millions of dollars. Prosecutors allege ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Brett Whiteley’s total sales are going up, and if ...

A court fight over the authenticity of three Brett Whiteley paintings will involve revisiting his "rampant" heroin addiction and cross examining his former wife Wendy.

Brett Whiteley was the great streak of lightning on the Australian art horizon. From 1960, no one had a vaster gift, more sheer brilliance or a bigger impact on the Australian imagination. No painter ...

The caption on the poster for this film reads: If there’s no meaning to life, then you might as well make it extraordinary. Whiteley in the iconic artist’s own words. The film is presented as the ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Opera Australia’s newest production, Whiteley, brings together three Australian icons. Elena Kats-Chernin, the doyenne of ...