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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A LADY OF TITLE, MELBOURNE

JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013

Trumper Park (1961)

$800,000–1,000,000

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© The Estate of Jeffrey Smart

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A LADY OF TITLE, MELBOURNE

JEFFREY SMART

1921-2013
Trumper Park (1961)

oil on composition board
signed ‘JEFFREY SMART’ lower right
50 x 91.5 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, Sydney

  • Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $1,227,273 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Jeffrey Smart, Sydney
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
John Amory, Sydney, acquired from the above in October 1961
Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Jeffrey Smart, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18-30 October 1961, no. 16, 60 gns
Loreto Arts Festival, Loreto Convent, Kirribilli, 6-8 May 1966, no. 29
Masterpieces of Modern Australian Painting from Private Melbourne Collections, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 28 July – 8 August 1999 (label verso)
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. 17, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

James Gleeson, ‘They’re On Their Own’, The Sun, Sydney, 18 October 1961
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 378, p. 107
Edmund Capon, Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942-2001, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001, p. 60 (illustrated)
Edmund Capon with contributions by Barry Pearce and Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p. 88 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 60-61 (illustrated)
Christopher Allen, Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p. 43 (illustrated)

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Specialists

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Geoffrey Smith

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