The appreciation of Jeffrey Smart’s paintings came to me fairly late.

Grace Cossington Smith is widely remembered as one of Australia’s great modernist painters. 

Jeffrey Smart’s painting Holiday of 1971 shows the then fifty-year old artist at his artistic best.

While his genius and individuality was expressed through an impressive range of media from printmaking to sculpture, it was painting that was the means by which he could truly make sense of the world.

The Chess Garden 1984-5 is a significant work from Blackman’s years at Buderim.

Characteristic moments of vigorous riding are expertly rendered, together with magnificent profiles of horses, contrasting with the headlong charge of physical beauty in action.

Ian Fairweather is an enigmatic artist within the rich tradition of modernism that shaped Australian art of the 20th Century.

For Brack, the nude, more than in any other theme in his art, presented the most immediate challenge from the grand tradition of art history.

'I never work from photographic documents. I work from memory. Whether I’m painting a bottle or a sunset, it has more to do with mood, memory and the distillation of time than realism'.¹

The lasting memory of the March auction for me remains three works by Arthur Streeton.