Past Catalogue | MARCH 2021 AUCTION | Date: 31 March, 2021

Lot 29

Green Nude 1971

oil on canvas

116.5 x 89.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: John Brack 71

Provenance:

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, c1980
Private collection
Christie's, Melbourne, 24 November 1993, lot 197
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 21 August 2001, lot 40
Company collection, Melbourne
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 15 April 2003, lot 31
Company collection, Melbourne
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 31 July 2006, lot 348
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Sydney, 28 March 2019, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature:

McCulloch, A., 'Innocence and Eloquence: Brack's Voice of Silence,' Herald, Melbourne, 1 September 1971 (illus.)
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, p.118; vol.II, p.26, cat.o187, (illus. p.143)

Exhibited:

John Brack: Drawings and Paintings of the Nude, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 - 28 April 1971, cat.8
Recent Paintings by John Brack, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1 - 17 September 1971, cat.5
Spring Exhibition 1980, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, September 1980, cat.196 (illus. exhibition catalogue)

Estimate

A$400,000

-

A$600,000

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Green Nude by JOHN BRACK

(c) courtesy of Helen Brack

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