ART BOOKS

Jeffrey Smart : Paintings and Studies 2004 - 2006

"Jeffrey Smart's career as a painter has been, in many ways, an exemplary one. He has developed steadily while remaining consistent, and has been independent without becoming idiosyncratic. Unlike some other important contemporaries, he has been disciplined about the quantity and above all the quality of the pictures he has allowed to be exhibited. And from the beginning, he has worked hard to discover the most important thing of all for an artist: the alchemical combination of style and subject-matter that can become the unique vehicle for poetic reflection on the world and that must be capable of evolution and modification over an artistic lifetime. There is nothing more difficult for an artist than to find a road that will bear and reward years of travel." (Christopher Allen, 2006).

Australian Galleries, 2006, Jeffrey Smart : Paintings and Studies 2004 - 2006 / Chrispoher Allen.

Softcover, 53 pages, ISBN 0 9751245 5 2, $40.95