Live Auction 17190Modern British Art Day Sale
Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Lot 177 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE THELMA CAZALET-KEIR, C.B.E., M.P. (1899-1989)

Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)

Landscape

Closed18 June 2019

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GBP 55,000

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Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Landscape
signed with initials 'MS' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 36 ¼ in. (46.3 x 92 cm.)
Painted circa 1935.

Purchased at the 1936 exhibition by Sir Kenneth Clark, K.C.B.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, where purchased by Thelma Cazalet-Keir, and by descent.

Specialist note


Thelma Cazalet-Keir lent a number of works from her private collection to the Tate Gallery in 1963 for their exhibition Private Views. In the exhibition catalogue she commented, ‘I have never been able to draw a straight line, or for that matter a crooked one, but because I have loved paintings, I have loved collecting them for a very long time’.