Playboy’s $500,000 art gift

Kym Bonython, an Adelaide playboy and son of the city’s pre-eminent power family, has gifted the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra with a major John Brack.

The donation, made to coincide with an exhibition of the Melbourne painter’s portraits, is estimated to be worth upwards of $500,000 and is considered the most important Australian portrait of the 1960s.

An exhibition of John Brack’s portraits will be on display from 24th August to the 18th November 2007 at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House in Canberra.  The exhibition will investigate the place of portraiture in Brack’s oeuvre and his approach to making portraits.

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