Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)

Var, South of France

細節
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Var, South of France
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm.)
來源
with Redfern Gallery, London.
出版
Exhibition catalogue; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1939, p. 8, no. 112.
展覽
London, The British Institute of Adult Education, June 1939, catalogue not traced.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April - May 1939, no. 112.
Temple Newsam, Leeds, 1950, catalogue not traced.

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In 1933 Smith moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer in the South of France between Nice and Cannes and the Hôtel Le Cagnard became his base for the next two years. The hotel was set on a hill with views towards Cap d'Antibes and from here Smith was able to explore and paint the surrounding French countryside. Malcolm Yorke comments on Smith's French landscape paintings 'Smith worked en plein air and scribbled opaque paint on to his white canvas in a race against his own failing staying power and tired eyes. This is not the sunny Provence tourists come in search of, but one tinged with melancholy or made slightly ominous by an approaching storm or night ... It is also noticeable that he never includes a car, telegraph pole, railway or any sign of modernity in his unpeopled vistas because, like Cézanne, he had no interest in the Impressionists' determination to record the transient effects of modern life' (see M. Yorke, Matthew Smith: His Life and Reputation, London, 1997, p. 153).