The Wedding Breakfast 1960

John Brack (1920-1999)

The Wedding Breakfast 1960

oil on canvas
129.5 x 182.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: John Brack/ 60

Provenance:

Collection of Mr J. R. McLeod

Thence by descent, private collection, Western Australia

Exhibited:

Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 1960 (inscribed verso)

John Brack/Fred Williams, Albert Hall, Canberra, in association with the Arts Council (ACT Division), 1 - 13 August 1967, cat.1

John Brack: Selected Paintings 1947-1977, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne, 15 March - 1 April 1977, cat.12

John Brack: Paintings and Drawings, 1945-1977 Retrospective Exhibition, Australian National University, Canberra, 21 September - 16 October 1977, cat.16

John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, cat.50

John Brack Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 April - 9 August 2009 (label attached verso)

Blue Chip XXIII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 24 March - 17 April 2021, cat.30 (illus. exhibition catalogue front cover, pp.37, 77)

Reference:

Shore, A., 'Eleven Artists Seek Travelling Scholarship', The Age, Melbourne, 23 August 1960, p.6

Millar, R., John Brack, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971, pp.38, 40, 41, 42, 48, 107 (illus. p.41, pl.8)

Thomson, G., John Brack: Selected Paintings 1947-1977, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne, 1977 (illus. pl.12)

Grishin, S., John Brack Retrospective: Paintings and Drawings, 1945-1977, Australian National University, Canberra, 1977 (illus. pl.16)

Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp.18, 121, 123, 130, 131, 139 (illus. p.47, pl.50)

Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, pl.15, pp.76-79 (illus. p.76); vol.II, cat.o108, p.16, (illus. p.114)

Grant, K., John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, p.219 (illus. p.114)

Related Works:

Study for The Wedding Breakfast 1960, conté on paper, 52.0 x 75.5 cm, private collection

Estimate: $900000 - 1200000

Result Hammer: $850000