Copies of the 'Patrick White's Choice' catalogue, together with information on artworks that the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired from White, 1981-c.1987

Containers:

Box 21

Component identifier:

File 2

Content Summary:

Brochure on Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, n.d.; copies (5) of the 'Patrick White's Choice' catalogue, 1981; valuation by Christie's of 2 artworks owned by White, 20 January 1983; valuation by Christie's of six artworks owned by White, 20 October 1983; letter to White from Alan Froud of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 6 February 1985, regarding 8 artworks offered to the Gallery by White; photocopied handwritten and typescript lists (3) of artworks given by White to the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1968 to 1987, including provenance and acquisition information

Immediate source of acquisition:

During White's lifetime, he asserted that he kept no manuscripts or personal papers, burning his drafts on completion of each work. For many years after his death, it was believed that a single manuscript draft of Memoirs of many in one (1986), donated by White to the anti-apartheid Canon Collins Education Trust for Southern Africa in 1988 and subsequently purchased at auction in 1991 by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales, was the only surviving record of White's literary manuscripts. While White does appear to have destroyed a considerable portion of his manuscript material, he clearly retained many literary papers and personal papers until his death. The papers in this collection were in the custody of Manoly Lascaris (White's partner) who died in 2003, and of Barbara Mobbs, White's long-term literary agent and Literary Executor, who presented the collection to the National Library of Australia in 2006.

Names:

White, Patrick, 1912-1990

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