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Lot #24 - Jeffrey Smart

  • Auction House:
    Sotheby's Australia
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian Art
  • Sale Date:
    20 Nov 2019 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
  • Lot #:
    24
  • Lot Description:
    Jeffrey Smart
    (1921-2013)
    Approach to a City III (1968)
    oil on canvas
    66 x 81 cm
    signed 'JEFFREY SMART' lower right
    EXHIBITED: Jeffrey Smart, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 17-29 September 1969, no. 8, illustrated; Jeffrey Smart Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 August - 31 October 1999; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 November 1999 - 6 February 2000; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 10 March - 21 May 2000; Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 10 June - 6 August 2000, no. 32, illustrated; Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 12 October - 14 December 2012; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 21 December 2012 - 1 April 2013, no. 40, illustrated
  • Provenance:
    Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Clive Evatt, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1969; Australian & International Fine Art, Menzies, Sydney, 24 June 2010, lot 36, illustrated; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above; Important Australian & International Fine Paintings & Sculpture, Menzies, Sydney, 22 March 2012, lot 40, illustrated; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
  • Notes:
    REFERENCES: Sandra McGrath, 'Jeffrey Smart', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 7, No. 1, June 1969, p. 39 (illustrated), 'Approach to a City II'; Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971, p. 396 (illustrated); Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 499, pp. 58 (illustrated), 110; Edmund Capon with contributions by Barry Pearce and Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, pp. 96-97 (illustrated), 112 (illustrated), 113 (illustrated), 207; Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 92 (illustrated), 95 (illustrated); Christopher Allen, Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p. 50 (illustrated); Barry Pearce, Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, pp. 70-71 (illustrated), 131
  • Estimate:
    A$650,000 - 850,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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