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020 JOHN BRACK
The Boucher Nude, 1957
(1920 - 1999)
oil on canvas
81.0 x 146.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: John Brack '57

ESTIMATE: $1,400,000 - 1,800,000

PROVENANCE
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Mrs V. Macallister, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, NSW
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 20 April 1998, lot 183
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Exhibition by John Brack, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 12 - 29 November 1957, cat. 2
Paintings by Important Australian Artists, Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, March 1958
Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, August 1958
John Brack, Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 26 April -13 May 1960
Australian Painting and Tapestries of the Past 20 Years, New South Wales House, London, May 1972
John Brack, A Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, 1987

LITERATURE
'New works add to reputation', The Age, 12 November 1957
McCulloch, A., 'Classical themes', Herald, 13 November 1957
Bonython, K., Modern Australian Painting and Sculpture, Rigby, Adelaide 1960, p. 42
Australian Painting and Tapestries of the Past 20 Years, New South Wales House, London, 1972, pl. 14 (illus.)
Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, 1987, cat. 38, p. 41
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1990, vol. I, pp. 59-60, 102, 120, pl. 8 (illus.) & vol. II, cat. o66, pp. 10 & 102 (illus.)


 
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