- Artist
- Jack Smith 1928–2011
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 920 × 920 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1983
- Reference
- T03814
Catalogue entry
T03814 Inside, Outside 3 1980
Oil on hardboard 36 1/8 × 36 1/8 (920 × 920)
Inscribed on reverse ‘INSIDE OUTSIDE 3’ and ‘Jack Smith/1980’
Purchased from the artist through Fischer Fine Art (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
Prov: Monika Kinley (until 1978); Ken Powell
Exh: Jack Smith Recent Paintings, Fischer Fine Art, March–April 1981 (32)
Lit: Alan Bowness, Helder Macedo, Jack Smith, ‘Jack Smith, Paintings and Drawings 1949–1976’
The artist first used this title in the 1960s, for example a painting exhibited in Jack Smith recent paintings and sculptures, Grosvenor Gallery 1965 (13), where he also showed sculptures with similar titles.
‘Inside, Outside 3’ was painted in the artist's studio in in Hove where he had recently moved, and was affected by his interest in the quality of light reflected from the sea. As often in Jack Smith's works the support is square. Initially he chose this format in the early 1960s as he did not want to be dominated by the shape of his canvas, but subsequently became fascinated by the regularity of the square, and has continued to use it for the majority of his work (see Alan Bowness et al., op.cit., p.15).
This entry has been approved by the artist.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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