JOHN BRACK
1920-1999
Reading the Reader's Digest 1955
Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR JOHN BRYSON AM, NEW SOUTH WALES
JOHN BRACK
1920-1999
Reading the Reader's Digest 1955
pencil on paper
signed and dated 'John Brack 55' lower left
53.5 x 20 cm
- Lot Sold $105,000 (Hammer Price)
- $128,100 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
Mr John Bryson AM, New South Wales, acquired 1955
Exhibited
John Brack, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 8-17 March 1955, no. 16, 9 gns (label verso)
Literature
Robert Lindsay, Ursula Hoff and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, p. 117
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol. 2, cat. p24, p. 44
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