Mixed flowers with Purple Background, (c.1934)
oil on canvas
39.5 x 24.5 inches (75 x 62.2cm)
initialled lower right ‘MS’
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Ashbrook
Private Collection, London
Exhibited: Matthew Smith and Retrospective; Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, 1929, no.31; A Memorial Exhibition of works by Sir Matthew Smith CBE’, Royal Academy, no. 155; Matthew Smith, Browse and Darby, London, April – May 2006
Literature: John Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Lund Humphries Publishers, Surrey, 2009, ill. b & w p.139 pl.291, ill. in colour p.186, pl. 32.