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Still life with flowers and striped cloth
Details
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Still life with flowers and striped cloth
signed with initials 'MS' (lower right), signed with initials again and inscribed 'MS./10 PASSAGE NOIROT/PARIS.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29¼ x 23¾ in. (74.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1931.
Still life with flowers and striped cloth
signed with initials 'MS' (lower right), signed with initials again and inscribed 'MS./10 PASSAGE NOIROT/PARIS.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29¼ x 23¾ in. (74.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1931.
Provenance
with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
Mr Ivor Novello.
Colonel Robert Henriques, M.B.E., Gloucestershire, by 1960.
Mrs David Henriques.
Mrs Westbury, June 1978.
Mr Ivor Novello.
Colonel Robert Henriques, M.B.E., Gloucestershire, by 1960.
Mrs David Henriques.
Mrs Westbury, June 1978.
Literature
J. Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the oil paintings, Farnham, 2009, p. 151, no. 331, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Sir Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition, October - December 1960, no. 148, as 'Flowers in a vase - white cloth, red stripes'.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons and Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Matthew Smith - A Loan Exhibition, April - May 1976, no. 54, as 'Flowers in Vase on white cloth with red'.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons and Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Matthew Smith - A Loan Exhibition, April - May 1976, no. 54, as 'Flowers in Vase on white cloth with red'.
Special notice
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