The Scissors Shop 1963

JOHN BRACK (1920-1999)

The Scissors Shop 1963

oil on canvas
115.5 x 81.0 cm
signed and dated lower left: John Brack 63

Provenance:
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 April 1999, lot 75
Private collection, Perth
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne 21 September 2005 lot 22
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 24 September 2008, lot 36
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Sydney, 24 March 2011, lot 40
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, 9 May 1963, cat.5
Australian Painting Today: A Survey of the Past Ten Years, touring Australian state galleries as well as venues in Europe, 1963-1965
John Brack/Fred Williams, Albert Hall, Canberra, 1 August 1967, cat.2
John Brack: Selected Paintings 1947-1977, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 15 March - 1 April 1977, cat.18
John Brack Retrospective: Paintings and Drawings 1945-1977, Australian National University, Canberra, 21 September - 16 October 1977, cat.22
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 - 31 January 1988, cat.59
John Brack: Selected Paintings 1950s - 1990s, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, 15 June - 14 July 1996, cat.6
John Brack, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria Australia at Federation Square, 24 April - 9 August 2009 and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 October 2009 - 31 January 2010

Reference:
Millar, R., John Brack, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1971, pp.25,31 (illus., pl.5)
Grishin, S., John Brack Retrospective: Paintings and Drawings 1945-1977, Australian National University, Canberra, 1977, (illus. pl.22)
Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989, pp.18,51 (illus. pl.51)
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, pp.88,91,132 & vol.II, pp.19,123, cat.o135 (illus.)
Grant, K., with Brack, H., Grishin, S., et al, John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, pp.110,220 (illus. p.75)

Estimate: $380000 - 480000

Result Hammer: $340000