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Jeffrey Smart

SELECTED WORKS

 Jeffrey Smart

Enquiries about Jeffrey Smart's works to be made directly to the gallery.


Jeffrey Smart Unpublished Paintings 1940-2007

Jeffrey Smart’s lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting. This volume presents over one hundred works that have not been published in previous monographs, while Christopher Allen’s introductory essay offers a thematic and formal interpretation of the work of this great Australian artist.

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1921 Born Adelaide, Australia
1938-41 Studied at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts
1948-50 Studied in Europe, including a period in Paris under Fernand Leger
1951  Awarded the Commonwealth Jubilee Art Prize
1963Left Australia to live permanently in Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2008Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2006'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Recent Paintings 2004 - 2006', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2005Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2003Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Australian Galleries, Sydney
2001Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
1999‘Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1998Australian Galleries, Sydney
1996Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1995Australian Galleries, Sydney
1992Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1990Australian Galleries, Sydney
1989Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1987Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
1986Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1984Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
1983Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1982Redfern Gallery, London
‘A Review Exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1981Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1980Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1979Redfern Gallery, London
1978Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1976Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1975South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1973Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1972South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1971Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1970South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Leicester Galleries, London
1969Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1968South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Galleria 88, Rome
1967Redfern Gallery, London
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1966South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1965Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Galleria 88, Rome
1963Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1962South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1961Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1959Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1957Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1955Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2007'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney

Bibliography

Allen, C.; Jeffrey Smart: Unpublished Paintings 1940 - 2007, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2008
Antipodean Vision, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
Art in America, 1963
Capon, E.; Jeffrey Smart: Drawings and Studies 1942 – 2001, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001
Capon, E.; Jeffrey Smart: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999
De Groen, G.; Some Other Dream: The Artist, the Art World and the Expatriate, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984
Hawley, J.; Encounters with Australian Artists, UQP, St Lucia, 1990
Hutchings, P., “Some Contemporary Realisms”, Concerning Contemporary Art: The Power Lectures 1968-73, Smith, B. (ed.), Clarendon Press,Oxford, 1975
Hutchings, P.; “Jeffrey Smart: realism in three dimensions”, New Lugarno Review, vol. 8/9, 1976
Looby, K.; “The Absurd Beauty of Reality”, Hemisphere, vol. 16, no. 11, 1972
MacAulay, B.; Jeffrey Smart, The Jack Manton Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, 1989
Malouf, D.; “Jeffrey Smart: Recent Works”, Art International, vol. XXV/9, 1982
McDonald, J.; “Passion is all in the priesthood”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 1987
McDonald, J.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70’s and 80’s, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
McGrath, S.; “Jeffrey Smart: a satellite is surreal: a man on horseback is illogical”, Art International, vol. XXI/1, 1977
McGrath, S.; “Jeffrey Smart”, Art and Australia, vol. 7, no. 1, 1969
Measham, T.; The Moderns 1945-1975, Phaidon, Oxford, 1976
Pearce, B.; and Prunster, U.; Jeffrey Smart: A Review Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982
Pearce, B.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings and Studies 1988-1995, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1995
Pearce, B.; Jeffrey Smart: Paintings and Studies 1993-1998, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1998
Quartermaine, P.; “Jeffrey Smart’s Brave New World”, Art and Australia, vol. 23, no. 1, 1985
Quartermaine, P.; Jeffrey Smart, Gryphon Books, Melbourne, 1983
Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1961 
Smart, J.; Not quite straight, William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1996
Survey, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1966

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Carlo Boatti Collection, Milan
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Rockhampton City Art Gallery, Rockhampton
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Thyssen Bornemesza Collection, Lugarno
University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne
University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
Victorian Arts Centre Public Art Collection, Melbourne
Yale University, New Haven


Photograph courtesy of Michel Lawrence

Selected Reviews

Smart wins accolade | The Australian Financial Review | 12 Oct 2006
Spare him the put-downs, Smart's better than ever | The Australian – The Arts | 26 Sep 2006