Bus by the Tiber 1977-78

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Bus by the Tiber 1977-78

oil on canvas
66.0 x 84.0 cm

signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART

Provenance:

Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 1980 (label attached verso, stock no.5073)

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Jeffrey Smart - New Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, 7 June - 4 July 1979, cat.19

Jeffrey Smart, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 8 November - 3 December 1980, cat.32

Reference:

Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.114, cat.686

McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.158, cat.159

Related Works:

First Study for Bus by the Tiber 1977-78, oil on board, 22.5 x 33.0 cm, private collection

Second Study for Bus by the Tiber 1977-78, oil on canvas, 23.0 x 24.0 cm, private collection

Guiding Spheres (Homage to Cézanne) II1979-80, oil and acrylic on canvas, 83.0 x 100.0 cm, private collection

The Waiting Bus (Coloured Study for Lithograph) 1986, pencil on paper, 63.0 x 75.5 cm, private collection; in McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, cat.308, p.161

The Waiting Bus (1986), colour lithograph on paper, edition of 80, 60.0 x 73.0 cm; illus. in McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, cat.309, p.161 (another example)







 

Estimate: $750000 - 950000

Result Hammer: $700000