Study for Motel Swimming Pool

細節

FRANK JEFFREY EDSON SMART (b. 1921)
Study for Motel Swimming Pool
signed 'Jeffrey Smart' (lower left)
oil on canvas on board
40.6 x 29.4 cm
Painted in 1970-71

來源

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Private collection, Canberra
anon. sale, Christie's, Sydney, Australian & International Paintings, 17 August 1999, lot 11
Acquired from the above by the present owner

出版

P Quartermanine, Jeffrey Smart, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 582, p. 112
J McDonald, Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s & 80s, Sydney, 1990, cat. no. 50, p. 157

展覽

Sydney, Macquarie Galleries (King Street), Jeffrey Smart, 17-29 November 1971, cat. no. 19

注意事項

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

拍品專文

Related work: Motel Swimming Pool, 1970-71, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, Private collection

In 1971 Smart exhibited Motel Swimming Pool and this study along with Housing Project No. 84 and Waiting Woman, Naples Turn-off at the Macqurie Galleries, Sydney. Although the purity of abstraction had been an interest of Smart's, it was this exhibition that saw the artist using the even regular flat patterning for the first time. Jeffrey Smart describes the direct influence for these works: "I was travelling on the long haul flight Sydney-Bangkok and the woman alongside me had a small tapestry frame and was forming an image from a lot of coloured knots, something like squares, and it led me to Housing Project" (J Smart, Jeffrey Smart Retrospective, Sydney, 1999, p. 120)