Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)
Second Study for Ostia 1969-70
Estimate: $70000 - 90000
Sold For:
$95000 hammer
Description
Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)
Second Study for Ostia 1969-70
oil on canvas-board
31.0 x 46.0 cm
signed lower left: JEFFREY SMART
Provenance:
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 1970 (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Recent Paintings by Jeffrey Smart, Leicester Galleries, London, 4 - 27 June 1970, cat.17
Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, November 1970, cat.21
Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.111, cat.546
McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.156, cat.22
Related Works:
Ostia 1969-70, oil on canvas, 65.0 x 100.0 cm, private collection; sold Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 26 November 2014, lot 14; illus. in Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p.155
First Study for Ostia 1969-70, oil on canvas, 31.0 x 46.0 cm, private collection; sold Deutscher + Hackett, Sydney, 13 September 2016, lot 20
Estimate: $70000 - 90000
Result Hammer: $95000