ID 1308448
Lot 261 | SIR MATTHEW SMITH (1879-1959)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Viaduct near Aix
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 ½ in. (54 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1935.
Provenance
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, where purchased by Sir Bruce Ingram in September 1936.
Mr David Hellings.
Lord Croft, 2nd Lord Croft, by 1960.
with Mayor Gallery, London.
Acquired by the present owner's parents, and by descent in 2003.
Literature
J. Rothenstein, Matthew Smith, London, 1962, p. 10, illustrated.
J. Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Farnham, 2009, p. 177, no. 431, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, National Gallery, British Painting since Whistler, March - August 1940, no. 171, as 'Landscape near Aix'.
Bedford, Cecil Higgins Museum, Collector's Choice: 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, April - May 1960, no. 32.
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, British Paintings: 1900-1969, November - December 1969, no. 26.
| Artist: | Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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