JOHN BRACK
1920-1999

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DR URSULA HOFF AO OBE, MELBOURNE
FORMERLY ON LONG-TERM LOAN TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE

JOHN BRACK

1920-1999
Portrait of Dr Ursula Hoff 1954

pencil on paper
signed and dated 'John Brack / 54' upper right
34.7 x 24.2 cm

Provenance

Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE, Melbourne, acquired directly from the artist

Exhibited

Nine Victorian Artists, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 22 February - 4 March 1954, no. 5
John Brack Drawings 1945-1979, Monash University Exhibition Gallery, Melbourne, 9 June - 10 July 1981, no. 7, illustrated
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, no. 126
Portraits by John Brack, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 23 August - 18 November 2007, illustrated
John Brack, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 24 April - 9 August 2009, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 October 2009 - 31 January 2010, illustrated

Literature

Ronald Miller, John Brack, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971, p. 105
Patrick McCaughey, John Brack Drawings 1945-1979, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 2, 5 (illustrated)
Ursula Hoff, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 117, 133, 141
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, p22, Vol. 1, pp. 65, 184, Vol. 2, cat. no. p22, pp. 44, 195 (illustrated)
Helen Brack, Kirsty Grant, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe, John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 27 (illustrated), 213
Andrew Sayers, Sasha Grishin and Helen Brack, Portraits by John Brack, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2007, pp. 19, 28, 29 (illustrated), 60