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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

JOHN BRACK
1920-1999

Finale 1973

$550,000–750,000

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© Helen Brack

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

JOHN BRACK

1920-1999
Finale 1973

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'John Brack 1973' lower left
146 x 114.5 cm

  • Lot Sold $530,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $650,455 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

John Brack, Melbourne
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Australian and International Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 25 April 1999, lot 83, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Australian & International Fine Art & Sculpture, Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2016, lot 36, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Winter Exhibition 1973: Recent Acquisitions, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 18 July - 2 August 1973, no. 57, illustrated
John Brack: Paintings and Drawings, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 10-28 November 1973, no. 3

Literature

Ursula Hoff, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 127, 128
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 128Vol. 2, cat. no. o207, pp. 28, 149 (illustrated)

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