“Auction first” paintings are always popular – so it was no surprise that John Brack’s (1920-1999) The Wedding Breakfast 1960 (lot 30) sold for $1,043,182 including buyer’s premium at Menzies Important Australian & International auction on March 31 in Sydney.
The hammer price of $850,000 almost reached the $900,000-$1.2 million catalogue estimate for a painting (depicting the cutting of the wedding cake) central to the artist’s Wedding series created for...