ID 1388426
Lot 127 | SIR MATTHEW SMITH (1879-1959)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
Apple on a Blue Dish
oil on canvas
22 x 26 ¼ in. (55.9 x 66.5 cm.)
Painted in 1919-20.
Provenance
Dr P.H. Luffman.
Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green.
Acquired by Simon Hornby, by April 1978, and by descent.
Literature
M. Yorke, Matthew Smith: His Life and Reputation, London, 1997, p. 107.
J. Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith with a Critical Introduction to his Work, Farnham, 2009, p. 74, no. 65, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, and Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Matthew Smith, April - May 1976, no. 14.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Barbican Art Gallery, Matthew Smith, September - October 1983, pp. 19, 68, no. 19, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Rochdale, Art Gallery, November - December 1983; Milton Keynes, Art Gallery, January - February 1984; and Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, February - March 1984.
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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