AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
Fed: Brack exhibition opens at Portrait Gallery
When Australian art collector KYM BONYTHON'S house burnt down in the 1983 Ash Wednesday
bushfires .. only one painting survived.
And today .. he's donated that work .. a portrait of himself by Melbourne artist JOHN
BRACK .. to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Mr BONYTHON says the ceilings of his burning house in South Australia collapsed on
his WHITELEYS .. BOYDS and NOLANS .. leaving only the BRACK and one urn intact.
Mr BONYTHON'S donation coincides with the opening of the gallery's latest exhibition
.. Portraits by JOHN BRACK.
AAP RTV sld/sb/rt/tm
KEYWORD: PORTRAIT GALLERY (CANBERRA)
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