John Brack (1920-1999), Self Portrait (1948)

• Lot Sold $90,000 (Hammer Price)
• $108,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

pastel on paper
32.5 X 25.2CM (IRREG.)

Provenance:
Gift of the artist to Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE, Melbourne

Exhibited:
John Brack Drawings 1945-1979, Monash University Exhibition Gallery, Melbourne, 9 June - 10 July 1981, no. 4, ‘1949'
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, no. 116, illustrated
John Brack, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 24 April - 9 August 2009, illustrated

Literature:
Ursula Hoff, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 89, 94 (illustrated), 115, 141
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol. 1, p8, pp. 27-28 (illustrated)
Kirsty Grant and Cathy Leahy, On Paper: Australian Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003, p. 64 (illustrated)
Helen Brack, Kirsty Grant, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe, John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 152 (illustrated), 156, 210

 An essay on this work is included in the published catalogue of this sale.