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JOHN BRACK
1920-1999

The Butcher's Bouquet 1968

Estimate $280,000 – $350,000

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© Helen Brack

JOHN BRACK

1920-1999
The Butcher's Bouquet 1968

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'John Brack 68' centre lower right
115.6 x 81.3 cm

  • Lot Sold $280,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $341,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney (stock 2254) (label verso)
Mr Michael Hershon, Sydney, acquired from the above
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
Mr Raymond Kidd and Mrs Diana Kidd, Sydney, acquired from the above in February 1974

Exhibited

Arts Vietnam, Gallery A, Sydney, 3-12 October 1968, no. 6
Recent Paintings by John Brack, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1-17 September 1971, no. 8, 'Butchers Bouquet'
Fourteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, January 1974, (no. 7)
A Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 18 April - 24 May 1992, no. 28

Literature

Ursula Hoff, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey, John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, p. 124
Sasha Grishin, The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, Vol. 2, cat. no. o158, p. 22

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Important Australian Art

AU0840  |  20 Nov 2019  |  Sydney
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