Second Study for Ostia 1969-70

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Second Study for Ostia 1969-70

oil on canvas-board
31.0 x 46.0 cm

signed lower left: JEFFREY SMART

Provenance:

South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 1970 (label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne

Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Recent Paintings by Jeffrey Smart, Leicester Galleries, London, 4 - 27 June 1970, cat.17

Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, November 1970, cat.21

Reference:

Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.111, cat.546

McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.156, cat.22

Related Works:

Ostia 1969-70, oil on canvas, 65.0 x 100.0 cm, private collection; sold Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 26 November 2014, lot 14; illus. in Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p.155

First Study for Ostia 1969-70, oil on canvas, 31.0 x 46.0 cm, private collection; sold Deutscher + Hackett, Sydney, 13 September 2016, lot 20

Estimate: $70000 - 90000

Result Hammer: $95000