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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 20 April 2011  |  Melbourne

Lot 169
John Brack
(1920 - 1999)
SPECTATORS, 1956

etching

17.0 x 27.0 cm



Estimate:
$12,000 - 16,000


Lot sold: $24,000 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

John Brack
(1920 - 1999)
SPECTATORS, 1956

etching

17.0 x 27.0 cm

signed, dated and numbered below image

Provenance

Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
Gerald Griffin, Melbourne, acquired
from the above 9 November 1956
Thence by descent
The Estate of Eileen Griffin, Melbourne

Exhibited

John Brack: The Racecourse Series, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 15 November 1956, cat. 23
John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 April – 9 August 2009 (another example, illus. p. 55
in exhibition catalogue)

Literature

Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol. II, cat. pr9, pp. 75, 254 (illus. another example)