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Renowned Australian artist of unique post-industrial landscape imagery dies in Arezzo of renal failure
Jeffrey Smart, the renowned Australian urban landscape artist, has died in Italy at the age of 91.
The Adelaide born painter, who moved to Italy in 1963, died of renal failure, with his wife of over 30 years at his side.
Smart's paintings of post-industrial society were known for depicting the beauty in everyday life.
He trained at the South Australian School of Art then later in Paris after he travelled to Europe following the second world war. He returned to Australia in 1951, working as an art critic for the Daily Telegraph, a television presenter for the ABC, and as a teacher at the National Art School in Sydney, before relocating permanently to Italy.
Stuart Purves, Smart's agent in Australia, told AAP he "slowly and surely faded away" and died at a hospital near his home at Arezzo, central Italy overnight.
Purves added: "I think he was one of the great milestones in our cultural well-being, a really significant person in that regard."
