Montagne St. Victoire, 1923
oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches (56 x 66cm)
inscr MS b.r.; verso ‘Ai/32’
Provenance: Mr. Harcourt Johnstone; Mr and Mrs F.W. Halliday; Private Collection.
Exhibited: Tooth 1934 (No.27); Venice Biennale 1938 (No.41); Leeds, Temple Newsam, 1942 (No. 118), Mayor Gallery 1949 (No.9); Tate Gallery 1953 (No. 48); Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester 1959 (No. 8); Royal Academy 1960 (No. 203); Welsh Committee, Arts Council, 1966 (No.25); Waddington 1968 (No. 11, ill cat.); Tooth/Roland, Browse & Delbanco 1976 (No. 28); Knoelder/ Waddington 1979 (No.9); Barbican Art Gallery 1983 (No. 60, ill. cat. col. pl. p. 44).
Literature: The Artist (September 1934), ill.; Denys Sutton, ‘English Artist Who Revelled in Colour’, Country Life (27 October 1960), p.962, ill; John Russell, ‘Matthew Smith in France’, Apollo (July 1962), pp.372-6, ill. col. pl. III; Allen & Unwin 1962, ill. col. pl. 39; Yorke 1997, p.153, ill.col. pl. 47; John Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Lund Humphries Publishers, Surrey, 2009, ill. b & w p.168 pl.393 and ill. in colour pl.39.