JOHN BRACK
1920-1999
After the Race 1956
Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR JOHN BRYSON AM, NEW SOUTH WALES
JOHN BRACK
1920-1999
After the Race 1956
watercolour, pen and ink on paper
signed and dated 'John Brack 56' lower right
30 x 47.6 cm
- Lot Sold $135,000 (Hammer Price)
- $164,700 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Mr John Brack, Melbourne
Leonard Joel, Melbourne
Mr John Bryson AM, New South Wales, acquired from the above in the 1960s
Exhibited
The Racecourse Series by John Brack, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 5-15 November 1956, no. 17, 18 gns
John Brack: The Sport of Kings and Other Paintings, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 27 March – 8 April 1957, no. 9, 18 gns
Literature
Ursula Hoff, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 118, 119
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, p22, Vol. 1, pp. 65, 184, Vol. 2, cat. no. p53, p. 48
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