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

Menzies, Sydney, 27 March 2019, lot 39

Company collection, Victoria

Exhibited:

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

Reference:

Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings, 1940-2007, Australian Galleries in association with Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2008, p.27 (illus.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: $400000 - 600000

Result Hammer: $530000