JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

JEFFREY SMART

1921-2013
The Four Closed Shops (1982)

synthetic polymer paint and oil on canvas
signed 'Jeffrey Smart' lower right
61 x 122.4 cm

• Lot Sold $570,000 (Hammer Price)
• $695,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1982

Exhibited

Jeffrey Smart: Recent Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, 11 November - 4 December 1982, no. 10, illustrated (cover)
Jeffrey Smart: Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 22 March - 9 April 1983, no. 11, (N.F.S.) (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. 65, illustrated

Literature

David Malouf, 'Jeffrey Smart: Recent Works', Art International, Lugano, Vol. XXV, No. 9, 1982, p. 68 (illustrated)
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p. 90 (illustrated), cat. no. 794
John McDonald, Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, pp. 110, 111 (illustrated)
Christopher Allen, Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries Publishing, Melbourne, 2008, p. 62 (illustrated)
David Malouf, Recondita Armonia - Strange Harmonies of Contrast, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, 2014, p. 3