JEFFREY SMART
1921-2013

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA

JEFFREY SMART

1921-2013
Morning Practice, Baia (1969)

oil on canvas
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' lower right
58 x 82 cm

• Lot Sold $550,000 (Hammer Price)
• $671,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

The Leicester Galleries, London
Mr Dick Senn and Mrs Barbara Senn, California, acquired from the above in 1970

Exhibited

Jeffrey Smart, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 17-29 September 1969, no. 17
New Year Exhibition. Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures by 19th & 20th Century Artists, The Leicester Galleries, London, January 1970
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. 42, illustrated

Literature

James Gleeson, 'Arts Review', The Sun, Sydney, 17 September 1969
Betty Churcher, Understanding Art: The Use of Space, Form, and Structure, Rigby, Adelaide, 1973, p. 64 (illustrated)
Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Painting 1950-1975, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980, p. 89 (illustrated)
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 65 (illustrated), 66, cat. no. 541
Edmund Capon and Jeffrey Smart, Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942-2001, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001, p. 71 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, p. 99 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart (rev. ed.), The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2011, p. 99 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, cover (illustrated), pp. 73 (illustrated), 131
Barry Pearce, 'Departure and Return of the Prodigal Painter', The Melbourne Review, Melbourne, December 2012, pp. 34-35