Still life with Fruit

Details

Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Still life with Fruit
signed with initials 'MS' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50 x 26 in. (127 x 66 cm.)
Painted circa 1955.

Provenance

Israel and Blanche Karp; Christie's, London, 17 October 1980, lot 97, as 'Still Life with Fruit on a Table', where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

J. Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Farnham, 2009, p. 264, no. 723.

Exhibited

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, John Moores Exhibition, November 1957 - January 1958, no. 63, as 'Still Life'.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.