The leaving of the Little Prince
Daily Telegraph Mirror , Sydney, Tuesday 16 June 1992. Brett Whiteley is standing next to a prize winning painting of Thirroul. "I'm just drawing the landscape .... . It really is beautiful down here. " Brett Whiteley at Thirroul c.1990 Australian artist Brett Whiteley (born 7 April 1939) died from a drug overdose - a mixture of heroin, dextropropoxylene (opioid pain killer), aspirin, methadone and whiskey - sometime between speaking to his art dealer Stuart Purves on Sunday , 14 June 1992, and 8.20pm the next day ...