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Gladioli in a Vase
Details
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Gladioli in a Vase
oil on canvas
25¾ x 21½ in. (65.5 x 54.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1935.
Gladioli in a Vase
oil on canvas
25¾ x 21½ in. (65.5 x 54.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1935.
Provenance
with Thomas Agnew's & Sons, London.
Lord Sieff.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1970 exhibition.
Lord Sieff.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1970 exhibition.
Literature
J. Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith with a Critical Introduction to his Work, Farnham, 2009, p. 199, no. 495.
Exhibited
London, Thomas Agnew's & Sons, British Paintings, 1900-1969, November - December 1969, no. 28.
Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings from Agnew's, London, October 1970, no. 26.
Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings from Agnew's, London, October 1970, no. 26.
Special notice
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