Exhibitions and Auctions
A major retrospective exhibition of Brack's work opened at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on 24 August 2007, the last major exhibition for the gallery before its relocation. Brack's widow, Helen, attended the opening and commented that Brack was not concerned with the social standing of the sitter, but rather the artistic merit of their participation in the piece.
Brack's painting The Bar sold for $3.2 million in April 2006, while in May 2007 his painting The Old Time sold for $3.36 million at auction in Sydney, a record for a painting by an Australian artist.
- 2009 John Brack: Retrospective Exhibition, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
- 2006-2007 'The Nude in the Art of John Brack', MacClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
- 1999 'John Brack - Inside and Outside', works in the N.G.A. collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- 1998 'John Brack and Fred Williams', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- 1987-88 'John Brack - A Retrospective', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- 1981 'Drawings, 1945-79', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
- 1977 'Paintings and Drawings, 1945-77', Australian National University
- 1977 'Selected Paintings, 1947-77', Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne
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