Dampier Port

Details

FRANK JEFFREY EDSON SMART (b. 1921)
Dampier Port
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' (lower right)
oil on board
61 x 76 cm
Painted in 1966

Provenance

Corporate collection, United Kingdom

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Lot Essay

In 1966 Smart was commissioned to paint mining sites at Mount Tom Price and Port Dampier in the north of Western Australia. The artist is recorded as saying that the rocks at Dampier were used as a motif in several later paintings.

We are grateful to Stephen Rogers, Jeffrey Smart's archivist, for his assistance with this catalogue entry

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