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Property from a Private Collection

Sir Matthew Smith

Cornish Garden with Monkey Puzzle

Lot Closed

March 16, 12:34 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Sir Matthew Smith

1879 - 1959

Cornish Garden with Monkey Puzzle 


signed MS (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 60.5 by 50cm.; 23¾ by 19¾in.

framed: 87.5 by 77cm.; 34½ by 30¼in.

Executed in 1920.

Mr G.P. Dudley Wallis, 1920s
Mr Eardley Knollys
Mr and Mrs Francis Halliday, and thence by descent to the present owners
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, Matthew Smith, George & Allen Unwin, London, 1962, illustrated pl. 14, u.p. 
Malcolm Yorke, Matthew Smith, His Life and Reputation, Faber, London, 1997, pl. 25
John Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2009, no. 75, illustrated p. 77
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Matthew Smith, 16 October - 19 November 1929, no. 6
New York, British Council, World's Fair, Contemporary British Art, 1939, no. 122; with tour to Ottawa; Toronto; and Montreal
London, Tate, Matthew Smith, Paintings from 1909-1952, 3 September - 18 October 1953, no. 13; with tour to Manchester; Bristol; and Halifax
London, Royal Academy of Arts, A Memorial Exhibition of Works by Sir Matthew Smith C.B.E. 1879-1959, 15 October - 7 December 1960, no. 9
London, Waddington Galleries, Matthew Smith, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from 1920 - 1950, 4 - 27 January 1968, no. 2
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. and Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Matthew Smith - A Loan Exhibition, 27 April - 27 May 1979, no. 25
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Matthew Smith, 15 September -  30 October 1983, no. 24; with tour
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, A Selection of Thirty Paintings by Matthew Smith, 10 May - 21 July 1990, no. 2, illustrated in the catalogue p. 7
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, details untraced
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century, 8 June - 31 July 2004