Level Crossing 1997

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Level Crossing 1997

oil on canvas
71.0 x 91.0 cm

signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART

signed and dated centre left: JEFFREY SMART/ 1997

Provenance:

Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Melbourne, 20 March 2014, lot 39

Company collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 10 December 2015, lot 42

Company collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Jeffrey Smart Paintings and Studies, 1993-1998, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 27 October - 21 November 1998, cat.12

Inaugural Collector’s Exhibition, Menzies Art Brands, Sydney, 15 - 25 February 2018; Melbourne, 27 February - 15 March 2018, cat.29

Reference:

Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings, 1940-2007, Australian Galleries and Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2008, pp.27, 217 (illus. p.217)

Related Works:

First Study for Level Crossing 1997, oil on canvas, 38.0 x 46.0 cm; illus. in Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart Paintings and Studies, 1993-1998, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 1998, p.16, pl.13

Second Study for Level Crossing 1997, oil on canvas, 39.0 x 49.0 cm; illus. in Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart Paintings and Studies, 1993-1998, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 1998, p.16, pl.14

Estimate: $450000 - 550000

Result Hammer: $450000