The Arezzo Turn-Off II

細節

FRANK JEFFREY EDSON SMART (b. 1921)
The Arezzo Turn-Off II
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' (lower right)
oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 81 cm
Painted in 1973

來源

Rudy Komon Gallery, 1973
Private collection, Sydney, 1973 - 1993
anon., sale, Christie's, Melbourne, Australian and European Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 24 November 1993, Lot 212

出版

P Quartermaine, Jeffrey Smart, Melbourne, 1983, cat.no. 618, p.113 J McDonald, Jeffrey Smart Paintings of the '70s and '80s, Sydney, 1990, cat.no. 79, p.157
A & S McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Sydney, 1994, illus. p.651
E Capon, Jeffrey Smart Retrospective, Sydney, 1999, cat.no.44, illus. p.135, ref.p.208

展覽

Sydney, Rudy Komon Gallery, Jeffrey Smart, 30 November - 31 December 1973, cat.no. 10
Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jeffrey Smart: A Review Exhibition, 17 June - 8 August 1982, cat.no.38
Sydney, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Urban and Urbane: paintings, drawings & prints, 28 June - 23 July 1994
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Melbourne, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Jeffrey Smart Retrospective, 27 August 1999 - 6 August 2000, cat.no.44
Melbourne, Australian Galleries, August 2000

注意事項

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

拍品專文

Related work: The Arezzo Turn-off I, 1973, acrylic and oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm
"Later works such as Approach to a City III, The Arezzo Turn-Off II and Near Ponticino are all based on a similar compositional doctrine in which a single element provides both the foundation and the dynamic. Using that single element as the means to take us from the very foreground to the horizon... induces even greater dramatic effect." (E Capon, op.cit, p.21)

Smart emigrated to Italy in 1963 and since 1971 he has lived in a Tuscan farmhouse called Posticcia Nuova, which is located just outside of Arezzo. Commenting on his paintings of the Italian autostrada, Smart stated that: "Sometimes I am asked if it doesn't feel incongruous that I am painting autostrada and traffic signs while I am living in the beauty of the countryside... this environment is conducive for work and on my frequent forays to Arezzo and Florence I see a lot of that modern world which I like to paint." (J Smart, cited in E Capon, op.cit, p.53.)