The Steps, Palma 1965

JEFFREY SMART born 1921

The Steps, Palma 1965

oil on canvas
63.5 x 79.0 cm
signed indistinctly lower left
inscribed verso: STEPS - PALMA

Provenance:
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
The Harold E. Mertz Collection, New York
The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas USA
The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie's, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 14 (titled as "The Steps, Parma")
Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso, titled as "The Steps, Parma")
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, April 1966, cat.7
The Australian Painters 1964-66: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 1966, cat.136
The Australian Painters: 1950-1966: From the Mertz Collection, The American Federation of Arts, New York, January 1969 (label attached verso)
Legends and Landscape in Australian Art, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Texas, November - December 1986
120 Years of Australian Painting, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 6 September - 30 September 2000, cat.1 (titled as "The Steps, Parma") (illus. exhibition catalogue, cover)

Reference:
Quartermaine, P., Jeffrey Smart, Melbourne, 1983, p.109, cat.458 (titled as "The Steps, Parma")
Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart; Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007, Australian Galleries Publishing, Melbourne 2008 (illus. p.129)

We appreciate the assistance of Stephen Rogers, Archivist for Jeffrey Smart, with this catalogue entry

Estimate: $500000 - 650000

Result Hammer: $500000