JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013
Portrait in the Art Museum (1965)
Estimate $140,000 – $180,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SINGAPORE
JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013
Portrait in the Art Museum (1965)
oil on composition board
59.5 x 69.7 cm
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
Provenance
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney (stock 3432) (label verso)
Australian Paintings, Geoff K. Gray, Sydney, 13 February 1974, lot 124, 'Portrait in the Art Gallery', illustrated
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
Private Collection, Singapore, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 19 April 1966, no. 5, illustrated (front cover)
Jeffrey Smart, Redfern Gallery, London, 7 February – 4 March 1967, no. 3, 'Portrait in the Art Gallery'
Jeffrey Smart: Recent Paintings, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 31 May – 12 June 1967, no. 3
Paintings of People, Von Bertocuh Galleries, Newcastle, 18 August – 5 September 1967, no. 12, 'Portrait in the Art Gallery'
Literature
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 445, 'In the Art Gallery', p. 109
Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart (rev. ed.), The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2011, p. 73 (illustrated), 'In the Art Gallery'
We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Stephen Rogers, Archivist for the Estate of Jeffrey Smart, in cataloguing this work.
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