JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

JEFFREY SMART

1921-2013
Study for Housing Project No. 84 (1970)

oil on composition board
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' lower left
frame: original, maker unknown
40 x 50 cm

• Lot Sold $160,000 (Hammer Price)
• $195,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above

Exhibited

Jeffrey Smart, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 17 November 1971, no. 13, $900
Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 14-24 November 1972, no. 22

Literature

Keith Looby, 'The Absurd Beauty of Reality', Hemisphere, Sydney, Vol. 16, No. 11, November 1972, pp. 15-16
Patrick A.E. Hutchings, 'Some Contemporary Realisms', in Bernard Smith (ed.), Concerning Contemporary Art, The Power Lectures 1968-1973, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974, p. 124
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 579
John McDonald, Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p. 48 (illustrated)