First Study for The Arrow Carriers 1978

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

First Study for The Arrow Carriers 1978

oil on canvas
23.5 x 25.0 cm

signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART inscribed verso: 1ST STUDY/ ARROW CARRIERS

Provenance:

Redfern Gallery, London (label attached verso)

Mr Innis Bloomfield, London, 1979

Private collection, United States of America

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 4 May 2004, lot 2

(as Study for 'Arrow Carriers')

Gould Galleries, Melbourne

(label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne, since 2005

Exhibited:

Jeffrey Smart: New Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, 7 June - 4 July 1979, cat.8

Director's Choice 2005, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 16 February - 14 March 2005, Gould Galleries, Sydney, 18 March - 24 April 2005, cat.1 (illus. cover of exhibition catalogue)

Reference:

McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.159, no.171 Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.115, no.721

Related Works:

The Arrow Carriers, 1978, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 60.0 x 55.0 cm; illus. in Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.49, cat.723

Second Study for The Arrow Carriers, 1978, oil on canvas, 32.0 x 25.0 cm, The Warrnambool Art Gallery collection, Warrnambool, Victoria

Drawing for The Arrow Carriers, 1978, pencil and watercolour on paper, 23.0 x 17.5 cm; illus. in Capon, E. ed., Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942-2001, Australian Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2001, p.97, cat.115

Estimate: $80000 - 100000

Result Hammer: $75000