Dampier III 1967

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Dampier III 1967

oil on canvas
81.0 x 65.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: JEFFREY SMART 67

dated and inscribed verso: Dampier III/ PAINTED IN ROME 67/ A PORTRAIT OF PICASSO

Provenance:

Private collection, Melbourne

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 November 1997, lot 118

Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Melbourne, 15 December 2010, lot 34

Private collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 8 December 2011, lot 35

Company collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Melbourne, 31 October 2013, lot 44

Company collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 10 December 2015, lot 37

Company collection, Victoria

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., 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 title as: Dampier II (Portrait of Picasso))

Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005 (illus. p.248, within exhibition photographs)

Heathcote, C., 'Jeffrey Smart in "I1 Boom" Italy,' Quadrant, July-August 2016, vol.LX, no.7-8, p.102

Estimate: $240000 - 300000

Result Hammer: $240000