Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

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Sir Matthew Smith

Swiss Still Life

Auction Closed

November 22, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir Matthew Smith

1879 - 1959

Swiss Still Life

signed with initials MS (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 33 by 41cm.; 13 by 16in.

framed: 51 by 59.5cm.; 20 by 23½in.

Executed in 1946.

We are grateful to John Gledhill for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Browse & Darby, London, where acquired by the present owner in 1989

John Gledhill, Catalogue raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Farnham, Lund Humphries, 2009, no. 546, illustrated p. 212

London, Browse & Darby, British & French Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 7 June - 8 July 1989, no. 28

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