Waiting Containers, Syracuse Harbour 1977

JEFFREY SMART (1921-2013)

Waiting Containers, Syracuse Harbour 1977

oil on canvas
40.0 x 46.5 cm
signed lower right: JEFFREY SMART

Provenance:
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Victoria

Exhibited:
Jeffrey Smart, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 29 March - 11 April 1978, cat.7

Reference:
Eagle, Mary, 'Special feeling for colours a Smart idea on art', The Age, 29 March, 1978
McCulloch, A., 'The Fantin of the Autostrada', The Herald, 6 April 1978
Millar, Ronald, 'Urban Visions from Foreign Lands, The Australian, 10 April 1978
Quatermaine, Peter, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, South Yarra, 1983, p.115, No.717, p.91 (illus.)
Allen, C., Jeffrey Smart Unpublished Paintings 1940 - 2007, Australian Galleries and Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2008, p.72

McDonald, John, Jeffrey Smart:Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Craftsman House, Roseville, 1990 p.158, No. 154, p.95 (illus.)

Related Works:
First Study for Waiting Containers, 1977, oil on canvas, 23.0 x 36.0 cm, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 29 March - 11 April 1978, cat.12
Second Study for Waiting Containers 1977, oil on canvas, 35.0 x 44.0 cm, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 29 March - 11 April 1978, cat.13
Third Study for Waiting Containers 1977, oil on canvas, 24.0 x 29.0 cm, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 29 March - 11 April 1978, cat.14; illus. in Quartermaine, Peter, Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983, no.716

Estimate: $120000 - 150000

Result Hammer: $190,000.00