Degas considered drawing and pastel to be mediums equal in importance to painting, which set him apart from his contemporaries, and he considered works such as this to be completely finished.
In June 1991, Whiteley was appointed an Officer of the.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
He painted abstracted images of bush scenes such as The bush 1966 and also images which resulted from experimentation with various drugs, such as alcohol in the humorous Self portrait after three bottles of wine 1971.
Typically, the viewer is led deeper into the picture by means of minute detail.
An audio version released by Audible in 2016 was narrated by.