Live Auction 708620th Century British Art
Jack Smith (1928-2011)
Lot 210

Jack Smith (1928-2011)

Bottles, Light and Shadow in a Room

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 4,000

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Jack Smith (1928-2011)
Bottles, Light and Shadow in a Room
signed and dated 'Jack Smith 59' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'JACK SMITH/BOTTLES/LIGHT + SHADOW/IN A ROOM 59' (on the reverse) and inscribed again 'BOTTLES, LIGHT & SHADOW IN A ROOM' (on the canvas-overlap)
oil on canvas
36 x 36 in. (91.5 x 91.5 cm.)

Gifted by the artist to the present owner's father who was a colleague of Smith's at St Martins, and by descent.

Specialist note

Between 1959-1960, Smith became preoccupied with the pictorial expression of light. Norbert Lynton comments, 'There is no doubt that these pictures are made of paint, with a brush moving mostly horizontally both to record the action of light and to hold real light and shadow in the ridges and grooves' (see N. Lynton, Jack Smith a Painter in Pursuit of Marvels, London, 2000, p. 45).