Jeffrey Smart
(1921 - 2013)
FIRST STUDY FOR BUS BY THE TIBER, 1977/78
oil on board
22.5 x 33.0 cm
signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART
Estimate:
$30,000 - $40,000
Sold:
$33,600 (inc. BP)
lot details
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above around 1987
Christie's, Melbourne, 1 May 2000, lot 210 (as'Bus Station')
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Jeffrey Smart – New Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, 7 June – 4 July 1979, cat. 20
Jeffrey Smart, Rudy Komon Art Dealer, Sydney, 8 November – 3 December 1980, cat. 33
Jeffrey Smart, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 26 October – 7 November 1981, cat. 24
Literature
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1983, cat. 684
McDonald, J., Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p. 158, cat. 157
Related Works
This work was used as a source for the lithograph The Waiting Bus, 1986, colour lithograph, 60.0 x 73.5 cm, collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,