Jeffrey Smart
(1921 - 2013)
HINDLEY STREET, EVENING, 1944
oil on canvas
58.5 x 49.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Jeff Smart 44
Estimate:
$25,000 - $35,000
Sold:
$24,000 (inc. BP)
lot details
Jeffrey Smart (1921 - 2013)
HINDLEY STREET, EVENING, 1944
oil on canvas
58.5 x 49.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Jeff Smart 44
Provenance
Vera Rudner, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 7 May 2001, lot 50
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
South Australian Painters, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney 10 January – 5 Feburary 1945 cat. 7
Literature
‘South Australian Painters’ Sydney Morning Herald 10 January 1945 p. 9
Quartermaine P., Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne 1983, cat. 36 p. 100 (illus.)
In 1945 when this painting was included in a mixed exhibition in Sydney, a review in the Sydney Morning Herald singled it out as’by far the best work in this show’ (10 January 1945 p. 9).