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Jeffrey Smart and the voyage to Europe.
NOW IN HIS EIGHTY-SIXTH year, Jeffrey Smart has lost none of his bravura, mischief and wit. For evidence you need look no further than his sell-out exhibition of twenty-six recent paintings, which occurred in Brisbane in May. Smart is a living Australian treasure in more ways than one. The most obvious is the price his many admirers pay for his work. But this appetite suggests a hunger for something that money cannot buy. A sensibility? Whatever it is, it engages Smart's admirers as well as his interpreters.
Christopher Allen's new book is the latest study. Antecedents include analytical works by Peter Quartermaine (1983) and John McDonald (1990) and Barry ...
- Top-shelf Jeffrey Smart painting nudges record.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence August 24, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Katrina Strickland and Terry Ingram Aug 24, 2009 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Three paintings previously owned by James Fairfax sold at auction for $A1.3m on 24 August 2009. Protestors assembled outside Sotheby's Melbourne auction house in a bid to prevent the sale
- At a Distance.(Australian authors and overseas travel)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies ROSS, BRUCE CLUNIES May 1, 1999 700+ words
...on the Castel Felice included Jeffrey Smart, already a well-known painter...they moved in his orbit. Whether Jeffrey Smart or Bruce Beresford shared anything...to address them (even though Jeffrey Smart had once been a guest at the flat...
- DORCHESTER CARPENTER AWARDED MEDAL FOR HEROISM SHOT WHILE THWARTING HOLDUP...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ray Richard, Globe Staff May 1, 1987 700+ words
Jeffrey Smart doesn't consider himself a hero for wrestling...Taunton man a Carnegie Medal for heroism. Smart, who was shot during his battle with the...1904. "I don't look at it that way," Smart said yesterday when asked if he thought...
- NSW: Artworks set to fetch up to $9m at auction
- Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) August 13, 2009 700+ words
...from Australian artists such as Jeffrey Smart, Sidney Nolan, Brett Whitely...this year. Also for auction is Jeffrey Smart's The Painted Factory, Tuscany...artwork was painted just after Smart moved to rural Italy and features...
- C-R-R-R-ITIC!
- American Theatre December 1, 1999 700+ words
...wrong. At least, that's what Jeffrey Smart, one-time reviewer for Sarasota...annual meeting this past summer, Smart gave the lie to the traditional misconceptions...few stats to back up his points. Smart sampled 97 critics who are members...
- Jordan Is True World Celebrity // But Not All Know Him - or Care
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times RUTH RICHMAN March 24, 1995 700+ words
Jeffrey Smart might be the only one in millions, even billions, of people. He never had heard of him. "Michael Jordan?" responded Smart, an Australian-born painter visiting Chicago from his home in Italy...
- EX-TEST SUBJECTS MAY BE IN DANGER.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) April 3, 2006 700+ words
...Many tests continued through the 1970s. Army historian Jeffrey Smart has spent the past 22 years at Aberdeen Proving Ground...It's a value call,'' he said. ``We're smarter now than we were then. We might have thought it was...
- The Solitary Watcher; Rick Amor and his Art. (Books: Poets Of Brush And Pen).
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Auty, Giles November 1, 2001 700+ words
...Australian point of comparison is with the much older Australian expatriate Jeffrey Smart. It is interesting here that my critical colleague John McDonald...similarity he sees--which I believe to be largely erroneous--between Smart's world