Flowers in a jug, red background

Details

Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Flowers in a jug, red background
signed with initials 'MS' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31 ¾ x 25 ½ in. (80.5 x 60.8 cm.)
Painted in 1928.

Provenance

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Vera Russell, and by descent to Richard Burton.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 25 March 2003, lot 88, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

J. Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Farnham, 2009, p. 134, no. 272, illustrated.

Exhibited

Venice, Biennale, 1950, no. 43.
London, Royal Academy, A memorial exhibition of works by Sir Matthew Smith C.B.E., 1879-1959, October - December 1960, no. 67.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Matthew Smith, September - October 1983, no. 52: this exhibition travelled to Rochdale, Art Gallery, November - December; Milton Keyes, Art Gallery, January - February 1984; and Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, February - March.

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.

Lot Essay

Vera Russell was born Vera Poliakoff in 1911 and was a Shakespearean actress and art collector. Known by her stage name Vera Lindsay, she performed in early television productions of The Tempest and Twelfth Night and trod the boards of the Old Vic alongside Laurence Olivier in the thirties.

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