Whiteley vista sells for $1.5m, The Australian, 14 March, 2007.

Whiteley vista sells for $1.5m: [2 All-round First Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Mar 2007: 5.

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Bidding in the grand ballroom of the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel, in Sydney's CBD, rose rapidly in $50,000 lots to reach $1.25 million -- that's $1.5 million when the 20 per cent buyer's premium is added.

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BRETT Whiteley's triptych View From The Sitting Room Window, Lavender Bay sold for $1.5 million at auction in Sydney last night.

The painting, completed a year before his death in 1992 from a drug overdose, depicts the scene from the window of his studio, with Sydney harbour coloured a deep wine-red.

Bidding in the grand ballroom of the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel, in Sydney's CBD, rose rapidly in $50,000 lots to reach $1.25 million -- that's $1.5 million when the 20 per cent buyer's premium is added. The pre-sale estimate had been set by auction house Deutscher- Menzies at $1.2 million. The buyer opted to remain anonymous.

Russell Drysdale's Red Landscape, painted in 1958 and depicting an Aboriginal hunter in a harsh red landscape, sold for $1.08 million, including buyer's premium.