Jeffrey Smart, born 1921
Jeffrey Smart, born 1921Estimate $600,000 – $800,000
- Lot Sold $600,000 (Hammer Price)
- $720,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
THE PICNIC (1980)
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' lower left
106 X 70.7CM
PROVENANCE
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 4 December 1994, lot 73, illustrated Private Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Jeffrey Smart, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 November - 3 December 1980, no. 14
Jeffrey Smart, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 26 October - 7 November 1981, no. 21, 'Picnic' (not for sale) (note some exhibition lists cite an incorrect work)
Jeffrey Smart: A Review Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 June - 8 August 1982, no. 50, illustrated
Jeffrey Smart Recent Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, 11 November - 4 December 1982, no. 3, '1980-81' , illustrated
Jeffrey Smart, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 5 - 16 April 1983, no. 7
LITERATURE
Sandra McGrath, 'Precisely', The Weekend Australian Magazine, Sydney, 15-16 November 1980, p. 9
Nancy Borlase, 'Two Questions from Twentieth-Century Painting', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 22 November 1980, p. 19
Jeffrey Makin, 'Smart Pays Homage to Manet', Sun, Melbourne, 28 October 1981, p. 46
Ronald Miller, 'Parr's Black Beauties', Herald, Melbourne, 29 October 1981, p. 30 (illustrated)
Geoffrey De Groen, 'Where the Light Must Rule', Art and Australia, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1981, p. 984 (illustrated)
David Malouf, 'Jeffrey Smart: Recent Works', Art International, Vol. XXV/ No. 9-10, November - December 1982, pp. 64-69, 65 (illustrated)
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 41, 42, 52, 60, 76, 78, 79 (illustrated), 83, 116, 131, cat. 764
John McDonald, Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, cat. 215
Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 166 (illustrated), 255
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Stephen Rogers, archivist for Jeffrey Smart, and Stuart Purves AM, Australian Galleries, Melbourne in cataloguing this work.