Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

all three top prizes SYDNEY. - Artist Brett Whita.J.u made history ye1terda; when he won the coveted Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prises. But the publicity-shy artist was not keen to talk obout his success. A member or his fami– ly .aid ahe arr!ved home to find a note saylnr he had gone bush \\1th some frlend.1: It is the first time 1,hat one o.rtlst has received all three In one year. Whiteley, 39, previously won all three com• petltlona - but at l!Jffer• ent Umes. He won the Archibald and Sulman Prizes In 1976 and the Wynne Prize in 1977. Whltetey's \\'O; k is ~p– ,ffM!n~ )n Australian State g,Jlerlee. the Tate Gallery ·In London and the M~ of ,Modtm Art · In Paris and· New York. , , Hls paint.Inga fetched from $2000 to S:I0,000 each. his Sydney agent, Mr, R. Olsbon, said. The Archibald Pria painting wa& a setf-por• trait. \ r The portrait, "Art. Life and The Other Thing," Is a serirs of three paint• Ing,;, wlUI, the first ·fen• turlng If lion crying out In apparent anguish. This picture has a SYl'• Inge attached to the top Jert•band corner, CIR•· rette butts s,uck on a bot– tom comer and sho\\'& tlie lion with nails and tacks In 116 feet, TIii · middle plclllt'~: much larger than the other two, featurea a por trait or a man, wh · head I& painted from sev– eral angles as If turning. At U1e end of an exag• gerated arm ls a drswlng or a previous and con• t rovers I a I Archibald Pr I z e winner, Joshua Smith, painted by WII• 11am Dobell. The t.htrd picture Is or a pleasant-faced Bmlllng mnn, bearing a atrong re· semblance to Harpo Marx, and I& a photo· grai,h or the artlat him• •elf.