abstract:In Australia, panel vans were a development of the Australian "ute" (a variety of pickup based on a car chassis). By the late 1980s, they began to slowly disappear from Australian roads as demand fell and major manufacturers slowly ceased building them.
In this regard, Braque likely knew of the iconographical use of a skull in an extraordinary 15th-century altarpiece panel picture in the Louvre, painted by the Netherlandish master Rogier van der Weyden and named the "Braque Triptych" for the work's patron, one Jehan Braque of Tournai.