Dampier III 1967

JEFFREY SMART born 1921

Dampier III 1967

oil on canvas
81.0 x 65.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: JEFFREY SMART 67
inscribed verso: Dampier III/ PAINTED IN ROME 67/ A PORTRAIT OF PICASSO

Provenance:
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 24 November 1997, lot 118
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 15 December 2010, lot 34
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, Redfern Galleries, London, 7 February - 4 March 1967, cat.19
Jeffrey Smart, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 21 May - 12 June 1967, cat.14
Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 August - 31 October 1999; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 November 1999 - 6 February 2000; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 10 March - 21 May 2000; Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Victoria, 10 June - 6 August 2000 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983,pp.53,76,109, cat.471
Capon, E., [Pearce, B. & Quartermaine, P., (contrib.)], Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, pp.106,207 (illus. p.106, cat.27) (note: 3rd edition dated 2000 cites works title as: Dampier II (Portrait of Picasso))
Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005 (illus p.248, within exhibition photographs)

Estimate: $250000 - 320000

Result Hammer: $230000