John Brack (1920 - 1999)

Study for mirror and scissors, 1966

pen and ink on paper

34.0 x 46.5 cm
63.0 x 74.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: John Brack 66

Private collection, Melbourne
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

John Brack and Fred Williams, Albert Hall, Canberra, 1 – 13 August 1967, cat. 13
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 – 31 January 1988, cat. 163 (label attached verso)
Australian Art: Colonial to Contemporary 1780s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 – 31 August 1996, cat. 81 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 62)
Important Works on paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, April 1997, cat. 7
John Brack and Fred Williams in Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 6 May – 16 August 1998

Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 163, pp. 100 (illus.), 143
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, vol. II, cat. p117, p. 54 (as ‘Mirror and scissors’)

Still Life with Purple Scissors, 1964, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 115.5 cm, private collection, ibid., vol.II, cat. o143, pp. 20, 128 (illus.)
Mirror and scissors, 1966, etching, 33.0 x 45.0 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney