From his much loved and magisterial 1969 Ballroom Dancer series, this painting was last sold at the very pinnacle of the 2007 art boom for a little over $2.1m.

For Brack, the nude, more than in any other theme in his art, presented the most immediate challenge from the grand tradition of art history.

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John Brack’s Backs and Fronts 1969, is one of the two key major paintings from his Ballroom dancing series which he painted largely in 1969 and exhibited for the first time in 1970.