Study for Autobahn in the Black Forest II 1979

JEFFREY SMART born 1921

Study for Autobahn in the Black Forest II 1979

oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas on composition board
44.5 x 30.5 cm
signed lower left: JEFFREY SMART
inscribed verso: 8

Provenance:
Rudy Komon Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Brisbane
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 May 2007, lot 1
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 November - 3 December 1980 cat.3, $2,500
Top Guns 2010, Richard Martin Art, Sydney, 3 July - 21 July 2010

Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.116, cat.739
McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p.159, cat.202

Related Works:
Autobahn in the Blackforest II 1979-80, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 99 x 64.5cm (Quartermaine, cat.740);
Autobahn in the Blackforest I. 1979-80, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 74 x 90.0cm (Quartermaine, cat.738)

Estimate: $155000 - 200000

Result Hammer: $135000