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Biographical Details:
Jeffrey Smart was born in Adelaide in 1921. Smart studied at the SASA from 1937-1941 under Ivor Hele. Originally Smart aspired to be an architect but soon moved his interests to painting. He studied in Paris in 1949 with Fernand Leger and in 1941 he attended the studio lessons of the Modernist artist Dorrit Black who introduced him to the geometric method for establishing the Golden Mean, which today forms the basis of all of Smart's work. He has been exhibiting regularly since 1957 and in 1999-2000 he was honoured by a major retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Since 1965
Smart has been living in Italy. 'Smart has adapted Quattrocentro master Piero della Francesca's curious frozen pictorial space, that in the Renaissance represented a kind of Platonic perfection and harmony, to paint our modern industrial utopia., Nothing, seemingly, can go wrong in this meticulously composed spaceÉ Jeffrey Smart is able to perceive and illuminate a sense of strangeness in these commonplace scenes, and has dedicated a long career to perfecting his technique of capturing the mysterious with the mundane' Timothy Morrell, Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, for the exhibition catalogue 'Jeffrey Smart', Philip Bacon Galleries, 1996.
Savill Galleries has been dealing in significant work by Jeffrey Smart for the past two decades. The gallery will consider the purchase of authentic Jeffrey Smart paintings held in priavte and public collection.
Smart's work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous private and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the de Beers collection.
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