Study for Portrait of Germaine Greer

细节

FRANK JEFFREY EDSON SMART (b. 1921)
Study for Portrait of Germaine Greer
signed 'JEFFREY SMART' (lower left)
acrylic and oil on fabriano paper on board
42 x 50 cm
Painted in 1984

来源

Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the Late Morris West, Sydney

展览

Sydney, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Jeffrey Smart: recent paintings, 6 - 24 November 1984, cat. no. 20

注意事项

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

拍品专文

Relate work: Portrait of Germaine Greer, 1984, oil and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 120 cm, Private collection

"Rosemary Roche, from Rome, was an agreeable and compliant model for Portrait of Germaine Greer. Germaine was not a particularly cooperative model when she initially posed. Perhaps she thought modelling was a waste of her time. She forcibly complained, when she saw the finished painting, that she never used a handbag and never sat with her knees together." (Jeffrey Smart cited in Australian Galleries, Jeffrey Smart Drawings and Studies 1942 - 2001, Melbourne, 2001, p. 122)