Sebastian Smee is an Australian Pulitzer Prize

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-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe

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. Educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide where he excelled Smee graduated from The University of Sydney with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 1994 and moved to Boston in 2008, having also lived in the UK between 2001 and 2004. Prior to joining the Boston Globe he was national art critic for The Australian

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 and has also worked for The Daily Telegraph

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 and contributed to The Guardian

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, The Times

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, The Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Art Newspaper

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, Modern Painters

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, Prospect

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 magazine and The Spectator

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. Smee is the author of the books Lucian Freud and Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation".

Publications

• Sebastian Smee, Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002, ISBN 9781876631321
• Sebastian Smee, Lucien Freud, Taschen, 2007, ISBN 9783822858059