10 Rillington Place
1964
- Medium
- oil and graphite on canvas on plywood, charcoal on paper, gelatin silver photographs, cord, cup, object, wood and glass
- Measurements
- 150.0 × 137.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown ink on reverse: "10 RILLINGTON PLACE WII." / OIL TEMPERA (TEMPERA with a line through it) ON CANVAS, / PHOTOGRAPHS, CUP AND / OBJECT, MOUNTED BOARD / 59" x 54" / (150 x 137cms) / Brett Whitley 1964.
- Accession Number
- AC2-1986
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Samuel E. Wills Bequest, 1986
© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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After several months spent in Italy in 1961, Brett Whiteley moved to London where he lived in an apartment close to where notorious murderer John Christie had strangled several women during the 1940s and early 1950s. Becoming preoccupied with these brutal murders, Whiteley produced a series of paintings depicting violated female bodies at close range, twisted and contorted near the point of abstraction. The nude female form became a recurrent motif for the artist and he returned to it repeatedly throughout his career, often in highly sexualised images of his wife Wendy.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Human Figures Violence
- Subjects (specific)
- dismemberment murders (deaths) nudity women (female humans)