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Looking back on his iconic picture ... Brack found it to be "totally unsatisfactory", because of the condescending attitude he adopted in relation to the people in the street. "I should have known", he said, "that their lives were just as complex as mine, if not more
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after finishing work for the day—"Blank-faced office workers hurry by like sleep-walkers, thinking only of the pubs or their homes in the suburbs". Brack conceived the work after reading
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was exhibited at the same gallery in March 1956 and was immediately purchased by the NGV." McKiernan, M. (2010). 'John Brack Collins Street 5 pm, 1955'.
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Collins Street in 1903; most of the building in the foreground still existed in 1955.
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114.6 cm × 162.9 cm (45.1 in × 64.1 in)
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Engberg, Juliana, "Collins Street, 5pm: John Brack's Enduring Cultural Icon',
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was voted the most popular work in the collection of the
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This article about a twentieth-century painting is a
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Collins Street., 5 pm

John Brack
1955
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne
ngv.vic.gov.au

1955
John Brack
Collins Street
Melbourne
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
The Bar
Peter Bray Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Ian Potter Centre
Federation Square
Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria


"John Brack"
"Gallery buys The Bar"
National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition 1956
"John Brack's Collins St, 5pm, the Most Popular Painting at NGV"
The Australian
News Limited
Collins St., 5pm

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