The Steps, Palma 1965

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

The Steps, Palma 1965

oil on canvas
63.5 x 79.0 cm

signed and dated indistinctly lower left: JEFFREY SMART 65

inscribed verso: STEPS - PALMA

Provenance:

South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne

The Harold E. Mertz Collection, New York

The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 1972 (labels attached verso, as Palma Steps)

Christie's, The Harold E. Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 14 (as The Steps, Parma)

Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso, as The Steps, Parma)

Private collection, Sydney

Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2010, lot 52

Private collection, Melbourne

Estate of the above

Exhibited:

Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, April 1966, cat.7

The Australian Painters 1964-66: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1966, cat.136

The Australian Painters: 1950-1966: From the Mertz Collection, The American Federation of Arts, New York, January 1969, cat.45 (label attached verso)

Legends and Landscape in Australian Art, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, November - December 1986

120 Years of Australian Painting, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 6 - 30 September 2000, cat.1 (as The Steps, Parma; illus. exhibition catalogue, front cover)

Reference:

Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Melbourne, 1983, p.109, cat.458 (as The Steps, Parma)

Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008 (illus. p.129)

Estimate: $500000 - 600000

Result Hammer: $470000