Nude in an armchair
1957
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
127.6 × 107.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1957
© Helen Brack
Gallery location
Gallery 12
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
This painting is part of John Brack’s first ever series of nudes, which he exhibited in 1957. At the time he noted: ‘When I paint a woman … I am not interested in how she looks sitting in the studio, but how she looks at all times, in all lights, what she looked like before and what she is going to look like, what she thinks, hopes, believes and dreams. The way the light falls and casts its shadows is merely boring and a hindrance unless it helps me to show these things.’
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: John Brack 57
Accession Number
3754-4
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Interiors
Subjects (specific)
armchairs green (colour) nudes (representations) pink colours rooms (interior spaces) seated figures side tables women (female humans)