JEFFREY SMART

Estimate

38,000 - 48,000 AUD

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Description

Jeffrey Smart
THE SHELTER SHEDS
Signed lower right
Oil on plywood
42.2 by 57.5 cm
Painted in 1961

Provenance

Australian and European Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Part 1, Christie's, Melbourne, 26 November 1996, lot 94
Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above

Exhibited

Jeffrey Smart, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18-30 October 1961, cat. 19

Literature

Keith Looby, 'The Absurd Beauty of Reality', Hemisphere, vol. 16, no. 11, November 1972
Peter Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, p. 108, no. 398

Catalogue Note

We are most grateful to Stephen Rogers for his assistance in the cataloguing of this work.