Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (British, 1879 – 1959)
Still life with sculpture
oil on board
21.1/4 x 23.3/4 in. (54 x 60.3 cm.)
Provenance: Removed with the contents of his Aix studio, by Marion Monay, tfor the aertistin early 1940, to Beauchene, the nearby house of fellow artist Harry Morton Colvile (1905-1992) Given by the artist toColvile in January 1946 along with otherstudio effects.
Given by Colvile’s only child, Professor Georgiana Colvile (1943-2018) to the present owner circa 2000
Literature:
Alice Keene, ‘The Two Mr Smiths, The Life and Works of Matthew Smith’, 1995, pp.61,65,70 & 128
When in early 1940 Smith went back to Aix to pack up and close his studio there and send back to London all the paintings possible, the residue was hidden (see Literature, Keene 1995, p.61,65 &70) in various locations around Aix by Marion Monay, a good deal at Beauchene the house of his and her friend Harry Colvile who had been Monay’s lover prior to Smith (see Literature, Keene 1995, p.59) In 1946 with the war over, Smith went to Aix to retrieve all he could manage to ship back to England but what he had to leave at Beauchene he give to Colvile, including the clay female...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Peter L Field Art
