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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  10 May 2017 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  99
• Lot Description:
  Jeffrey Smart
  (1921 – 2013)
  Still Life, c.1948
  watercolour on paper
  27.0 x 36.5 cm
  inscribed lower right: HAN VAN MEEGEREN / (1948)
• Provenance:
  Barbara Woodward, Adelaide, acquired directly from the artist; Thence by descent; Private collection, London
• Notes:
  ...this modest watercolour is amusingly inscribed lower right ‘Han Van Meegeren' 1948’. The infamous Han van Meegeren 1889 – 1947, was a Dutch painter and portraitist. However Van Meegeren was best known as an exquisite forger whose copies of Dutch masters including Vermeer were very convincing. This light hearted Still Life by Jeffrey Smart, painted the year after Van Meegeren’s death, is remembered as a homage in jest to the great forgers achievements. Deutscher and Hackett gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Stephen Rogers, Archivist for the Estate of Jeffrey Smart, in cataloguing this work.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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