Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Reclining Figure, Madame Plichta
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted in 1922.
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Reclining Figure, Madame Plichta
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted in 1922.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1971, lot 77.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Olympia, 7 June 2007, lot 35.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 May 2011, lot 158, where purchased by the present owner.
J. Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Farnham, 2009, p. 90, no. 118, illustrated.
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