Jeffrey Smart: unpublished paintings 1940-2007

Jeffrey Smart’s lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting, while Christopher Allen’s introductory essay offers a thematic and formal interpretation of the work of this great Australian Artist. This book has ‘ a large number of important paintings that have not appeared in any of the earlier monographs or catalogues’. The chapters are: the World of Jeffrey Smart; places; people; composition & resolution; the detached vision. SC