Jeffrey Smart’s famed portrait of his friend Germaine Greer is on the market for the first time since it was painted in 1984.
With an estimate of $1 million to $1.5 million, the work, which was recently on loan to the National Gallery of Australia for its Smart retrospective, could well set a new auction record for the artist.
Gabriella CoslovichSaleroom writerGabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
