Outside the Ministry 1970

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Outside the Ministry 1970

oil on canvas
80.0 x 90.0 cm

signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART

Provenance:

Leicester Galleries, London (label attached verso)

Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne, 1970

Private collection, Melbourne

Estate of the above

Exhibited:

Recent Paintings by Jeffrey Smart, Leicester Galleries, London, 4 - 27 June 1970, cat.20

Reference:

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Jeffrey Smart, Ernest Brown and Phillips, London, 1970, p.10 (illus.)

Wright, B., 'Jeffrey Smart,' Arts Review, 6 June 1970, vol.XXII, no.11, p.358

Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.111, cat.586

McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.156, no.25

Related Works:

The Steps, Palma 1965, oil on canvas, 62.2 x 77.5 cm. private collection: sold Menzies, 25 March 2010, lot 52; illus. in Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart; Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries Publishing, Melbourne, 2008, p.129

The Steps 1967, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 80.0 cm, private collection; sold Sotheby's, Sydney, 24 November 2015, lot 22; illus. in Capon, E. et al., Jeffrey Smart, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p.107, cat.28

Ostia 1969-70, oil on canvas, 66.0 x 100.0 cm, private collection, sold Deutscher + Hackett, 26 November 2014, lot 14; illus. in Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p.155

Holiday 1971, oil on canvas, 100.0 x 81.0 cm, private collection, sold Menzies, Sydney, 27 June 2013, lot 37; illus. in Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart - Master of Stillness, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, p.76

Estimate: $400000 - 600000

Result Hammer: $400000