John Brack (1920-1999)
Reclining Nude 1980
Estimate: $500000 - 700000
Sold For:
$460000 hammer
Description
John Brack (1920-1999)
Reclining Nude 1980
oil on canvas
125.0 x 151.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: John Brack 1980
Provenance:
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 1980
Collection of Dr Joan Croll AO, Sydney
Exhibited:
John Brack, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 16 August - 10 September 1980, cat.10
Reference:
Lindsay, R., John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, p.132 (in exhibition listings)
Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, p.156 (illus. p.158, pl.48, as Recumbent Nude); vol.II, p.35, cat.o263 (illus. p.169, as Recumbent Nude)
Related Works:
Joan Croll 1976, oil on canvas, 152.5 x 106.5 cm, National Portrait Gallery collection, Canberra, Gift of Frank and Joan Croll, 2001
Recumbent Nude 1980, oil on canvas, 127.0 x 153.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria collection, Melbourne, Gift of an anonymous donor, 2013
Study for Reclining Nude 1979, conté on paper, 55.0 x 75.0 cm, private collection, illus. in Grishin, S., The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990, vol.I, p.157, pl.47; vol.II, p.69, cat.p257
Estimate: $500000 - 700000
Result Hammer: $460000