''Collins St., 5 pm'' is a

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painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts office workers walking along busy Collins Street in Melbourne 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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's 1922 poem '' The Waste Land''. It is considered a companion piece to Brack's earlier work '' The Bar''. The painting was purchased from

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for the National Gallery of Victoria's permanent Australian art collection and is exhibited in the

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in Federation Square in Melbourne.National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition 1956
/ref> In 2011, ''Collins St., 5 pm'' was voted the most popular work in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.

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''Collins St., 5pm''
- National Gallery of Victoria collection. Paintings by John Brack Paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria 1955 paintings Arts in Melbourne {{20C-painting-stub