Garry Shead's First Date at Greengate on the cover of The Bulletin, 1996. 

Provenance: The estate of Patricia Rolfe, former deputy editor and literary editor of The Bulletin Magazine and author of  The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin, 1979.

Illustrated: Grishin., S, Garry Shead and the Erotic Muse, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001 Plate 6, p.28. Cover of the Bulletin Magazine, 2 July 1966.

First Date at Greengate is an early painting from Shead’s 1966 Watters Gallery exhibition Wahroonga Lady in Her Naked Lunch which launched his career into public prominence and public controversy. First Date at Greengate, 1966 was illustrated on the cover of the July 1966 edition of the Bulletin Magazine in which the catalogue essay for the Watters Gallery exhibition was reprinted. 

As Sasha Grishin explains, in the paintings of this period in which his fascination with the female nude emerged, '…we encounter a series of tonal, delicate paintings which are the most non-literal representations to be found in any of Shead’s work, where red brick houses are blocked out with fluid, tonal, painterly masses in the background, and on dark olive green areas, resembling more the flow of a polluted creek than a castrated lawn, appear bulbous torsos, some highlighted with collaged heads and suggested breasts.'
 
Reference: Grishin., S, Garry Shead and the Erotic Muse, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001, p. 25