Dampier III 1967

JEFFREY SMART born 1921

Dampier III 1967

oil on canvas
81.0 x 65.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: JEFFREY SMART 67
inscribed verso: Dampier III/ PAINTED IN ROME 67/ A PORTRAIT OF PICASSO

Provenance:
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 24 November 1997, lot 118
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, Redfern Galleries, London, 7 February - 4 March 1967, cat.19
Jeffrey Smart, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 21 May - 12 June 1967, cat.14
Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 August - 31 October 1999; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 November 1999 - 6 February 2000; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 10 March - 21 May 2000; Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Victoria, 10 June - 6 August 2000 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983,pp.53,76,109, cat.471
Capon, E., [Pearce, B. & Quartermaine, P., (contrib.)], Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, pp.106,207 (illus. p.106, cat.27) (note: 3rd edition dated 2000 cites works title as: Dampier II (Portrait of Picasso))
Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005 (illus p.248, within exhibition photographs)

Estimate: $280000 - 350000

Result Hammer: $260000