Whiteley’s Balmoral nets $990k for Cezanne fund
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has sold two paintings to help fund its purchase of a $16.2 million work by French artist Paul Cezanne.
Brett Whiteley’s Balmoral fetched $990,000 at the Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne.
John Perceval’s Pleasure Craft sold for $198,000.
Cezanne’s Bords De La Marne is the most expensive artwork ever bought by an Australian public gallery.