Jockey and Trainer 1956

JOHN BRACK (1920-1999)

Jockey and Trainer 1956

etching
17.0 x 22.5 cm
numbered, signed and dated below image

edition: 12/25

Provenance:
Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Hawthorn Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso, stock number 8540)
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
The Racecourse Series by John Brack, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 5 - 15 November 1956, cat.25 (another example)
John Brack: The Sport of Kings and Other Paintings, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 27 March - 8 April 1957, cat.26 (another example)
The Antipodeans Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1976, cat.15 (another example)
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, cat.143 (another example)
John Brack: Inside and Outside, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 27 February - 14 June 1999 (another example)

Reference:
Langer, G., 'Painter portrays city life', Courier Mail, 27 March 1957, p.2
Millar, R., John Brack, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971, p.106
Guy, J., The Antipodeans Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1976 (illus.)
Catalano, G., The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism, 1959-1968, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, p.57 (illus., another example)
Lindsay, R., McCaughey, P., and Hoff, U., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, pp.90, 103, 118-19,142 (illus. p.103, another example)
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, pp.58, 200, vol.II, p.76, pr11 (illus. p.255, another example)
Burke, J., 'A rear view window on John Brack’s bleak genius', Age, 27 February 1999, p.13
Clark, D., John Brack: Inside and Outside, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1999 (illus.)
James, B., 'That old Brack magic', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 1999, p.12
Grant, K., John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, p.216 (illus. p.55, another example)

Estimate: $12000 - 16000

Result Hammer: $9500