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Brett Whiteley's The American Dream on display in Perth after painstaking three-month restoration
Brett Whiteley's vast 1968 painting The American Dream is about to go on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), following a painstaking three-month restoration last year. The American Dream consists of 18 adjoining panels, 2.44 metres high and 22 metres wide, and was painted by Whiteley during his time living in New York's famed Chelsea hotel, surrounded by artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
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Brett Whiteley - The American dream, 1968-69 (detail). Oil, tempera, collage, photography and objects on eighteen wooden panels
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