Hindley Street at Evening 1943-44

Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013)

Hindley Street at Evening 1943-44

oil on canvas on board
58.5 x 49.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: JEFF SMART 44

Provenance:

Ms Vera Rudner, Sydney

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 7 May 2001, lot 50 (as Hindley Street, Evening)

Private collection, Sydney

Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 16 April 2008, lot 93 (as Hindley Street, Evening)

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

(probably) Jeff Smart, Jacqueline Hick, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, December 1943, cat.31 (as Hindley Street)

Sixth Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Education Building, Sydney, 26 June - 14 July 1944, cat.363; Velasquez Gallery, Melbourne, September 1944; Geelong Free Library, Geelong, October 1944; Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, November 1944, cat.266 (as Hindley Street Houses)

South Australian Painters, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 10 January - 5 February 1945, cat.7

Jeffrey Smart: The Perth Exhibition, Australian Galleries in association with The Swansea Gallery, Perth, 3 - 13 May 2011 (label attached verso, stock no.AG106128)

Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011, Carrick Hill, South Australia, 10 October 2012 - 24 February 2013, cat.6

Reference:

'South Australian Painters,' Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 10 January 1945, p.9

Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.100, cat.36 (illus., as Hindley Street, Evening 1944-45)

Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, p.27 (illus.)

Pearce, B., Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, pp.10, 31, 128, cat.6 (illus. p.30)

Estimate: $40000 - 60000