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On the elegance and wry observations of Jeffrey Smart, one of Australia's favourite painters

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
On the elegance and wry observations of Jeffrey Smart, one of Australia's favourite paintersJeffrey Smart, Margaret Olley in the Louvre Museum 1994–95 Tuscany, Italy. Oil on canvas 67 x 110 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Bequest of Ian Whalland 1997. 85.1997

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