Holiday 1971

JEFFREY SMART born 1921

Holiday 1971

oil on canvas
100.0 x 81.0 cm
signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART
inscribed verso: HOLIDAY

Provenance:
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Clive and Elizabeth Evatt, New South Wales
Menzies, Sydney, 24 June 2010, lot 33
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 17 - 29 November 1971, cat.2
Jeffrey Smart: A Review Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June - August 1982, cat.32
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 Heide, Victoria, 10 June - 6 August 2000 (label attached verso)

This work has been requested for loan at the following exhibition: Jeffrey Smart: Master of Stillness, 12 October - 14 December 2012, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide and December 2012 - March 2013, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.

Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p.112, cat.599 (illus. p.24)
McDonald, J., Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, pp.48,154,157, cat.54 (illus. p.65, pl.5)
Capon, E., [Pearce, B. & Quartermaine, P., (contrib.)], Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, p.208 (illus. p.131, cat.40)
Smart, J., Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942-2001, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001, p.202 (illus. p.91, fig.15)
Pearce, B., Jeffrey Smart, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005, pp.168,254 (illus. p.107)
Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2008, p.25 (illus.)
Strickland, K., 'Legal eagle Evatt a Smart seller', The Australian Financial Review, Sydney, 24 June 2010, p.21
Strickland, K., 'Smart's 'Holiday' sells for record', The Australian Financial Review, Sydney, 25 June 2010, p.32

Estimate: $800000 - 1000000

Result Hammer: $800000