Sir Matthew Smith, (British, 1879-1959)

Evening Landscape, Provence 33.5 x 55 cm. (13 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

Evening Landscape, Provence
oil on canvas
33.5 x 55 cm. (13 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Painted circa 1933

Provenance
With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 5 November 1936, where purchased by
Commander G.L. Lowis
Major Le Gendre George Horton-Fawkes O.B.E., thence by family descent to
Richard Hawksworth Horton-Fawkes
Sale; Christie's, London, 4 March 1983, lot 61
With Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, July 1983 where acquired by
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Matthew Smith: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1936, cat.no.4

Literature
John Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2009, p.173, cat.no.414 (ill.b&w.)

We are grateful to John Gledhill for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.