Important Australian + International Fine Art - 16 April 2008 - 17 April 2008 | Melbourne
Lot 93
Jeffrey Smart
born 1921
HINDLEY STREET, EVENING, 1944
oil on canvas
58.5 x 49.5 cm
Estimate:
$25,000 - 35,000
Lot sold: $24,000 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Jeffrey Smart
born 1921
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).