Title
Barry Humphries in the character of Mrs Everage
1969
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1969
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 94.5 x 128.2 cm stretcher; 110.2 x 143.5 x 6.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "John Brack 69".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Contemporary Art Purchase Grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council 1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 209.1975
- Copyright
- © Helen Brack
- Archibald Prize
- - 1969
- Artist information
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John Brack
Works in the collection
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About
This work was a finalist in the 1969 Archibald Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1975.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 06 May 1992–28 Jun 1992
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 10 Jul 1992–09 Aug 1992
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 25 Aug 1992–20 Sep 1992
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Oct 1992–22 Nov 1992
Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 03 Dec 1992–31 Jan 1993
Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 11 Oct 1994–20 Nov 1994
Decade of flair - The Seventies, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 16 Nov 1996–13 Apr 1997
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Rarely Everage: the lives of Barry Humphries, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Nov 2002–16 Feb 2003
John Brack portraits (2007), National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 24 Aug 2007–18 Nov 2007
John Brack Retrospective (2009-2010), Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 24 Apr 2009–09 Aug 2009
John Brack Retrospective (2009-2010), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 02 Oct 2009–31 Jan 2010
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jun 2021–26 Sep 2021
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 06 Nov 2021–20 Feb 2022
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 18 Mar 2022–12 Jun 2022
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09 Jul 2022–03 Oct 2022
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 22 Oct 2022–08 Jan 2023
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 26 Jan 2023–26 Mar 2023
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 15 Apr 2023–25 Jun 2023
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, 15 Jul 2023–02 Oct 2023
Archie 100: A century of the Archibald Prize, National Portrait Gallery [Parliamentary Zone], Canberra, 21 Oct 2023–28 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 16 publications
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Jenny Aland and Max Darby (Editors), Art Connections, 'Subject Matter', pg. 83-84, Port Melbourne, 1998, 84 (colour illus.).
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Tony Bonyhady, The Australian's Review of Books, 'With heads held high', pg. 14-16, Sydney, Jun 1999, 14 (illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Ursula Prunster, Face to face: Australian portraits, Sydney, 1986, (colour illus.). cat.no. 22
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Edmund Capon, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'John Brack / Jeffrey Smart', pg. 116-127, Sydney, 2002, 124, 142, 147.
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Kristy Grant, John Brack, 'Human nature: the art of John Brack', pg. 87-132, Melbourne, 2009, 107, 120 (colour illus.), 121, 222.
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Anne Gray, Face: Australian portraits 1880-1960, 'Face: Australian portraits 1880-1960', pg. 15-41, Canberra, 2010, 36, 38.
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Sasha Grishin, Portraits by John Brack, 'John Brack and the cerebral portrait', pg. 2-15, Parkes, 2007, 9-10, 48-49 (colour illus.), 61.
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Robert Lindsay, Creating Australia: 200 years of art 1788-1988, 'Mutual Applause', pg.184-185, Melbourne, 1988, 9, 184-185, 185 (colour illus.), 239, 245.
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Denise Mimmocchi, Look, 'Instilling the familiar with a lurking sense of uncertainty', pg. 29, Sydney, Jul 2011, 29.
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Brenda Niall, Judy Cassab: a portrait, Sydney, 2005, 187.
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Barry Pearce, The world of Antiques & Art, 'Exploring hidden treasures in Parallel Visions', pg. 124-126, Bondi Junction, Jul 2002-Dec 2002, 125 (colour illus.).
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Peter Ross, Let's face it: the history of the Archibald Prize, Sydney, 2005, 62 (colour illus.).
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Peter Ross, Let's face it: the history of the Archibald Prize, 'Into the 1970s', pg. 63-87, Sydney, 1999, front cover (colour illus.), 64 (colour illus.).
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Mandy Sayer, Art and Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1), 'Writer's choice: Mrs Edna Everage paints John Brack', pg. 126-127, Sydney, Sep 2007-Nov 2007, 2 (colour illus., detail), 126, 127 (colour illus.).
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Richard Walsh, Decade of flair - The Seventies, Canberra, 1996, 11, front cover (colour illus.).
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Elizabeth Young., The advertiser, 'Painting, sculpture', Adelaide, 24 Jan 1970, page number unknown (illus.).
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