Still life with Artificial Leg 1963

JOHN BRACK (1920-1999)

Still life with Artificial Leg 1963

oil on canvas
102.0 x 122.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: John Brack 63

Provenance:
The Harold E Mertz Collection, Texas, USA
Christie's, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 16
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, March - April 1967, cat.82 (as Artificial Limbmaker's Shop), followed by a national tour in the USA, 24 August 1967 - 8 March 1970
John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 April - 9 August 2009 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Millar, R., John Brack, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1971, pp.28, 108
Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, p.122
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, Vol.I, p.87, Vol. II, o.134, pp.18-19; p.122 (illus.)
Grishin, S., 'John Brack 1920-1999', Art and Australia, Vol.37, no.1, Spring 1999, p.57
Sayers, A., Grishin, S. and Brack, H., Portraits by John Brack, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2007, p.11

Estimate: $240000 - 300000