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Lilies in a Jar
Maker
(Artists)
1879-1959
1879-1959
Title
Lilies in a Jar
Date of Production
1914
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 61 cm (canvas)
Width: 55.9 cm (canvas)
Width: 55.9 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.1982.LB.411
Mode of Acquisition
Lillian Browse, gift, 1982
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© the Estate of Sir Matthew Bracy Smith
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Matthew Smith painted this work in the artists’ colony of Grez-sur-Loing in France, two years after leaving Matisse’s art school in Paris. The painting is a bold display of the simplification of forms and vibrant colours typical of the French master, who inspired Smith to intensify his vision of the natural world. The result, according to the artist, was not a conventional description, but an attempt to “create something as living as nature, so that it itself may continue to live”.
Provenance
Lillian Browse Gift 1982
Exhibition History
20th century British Art, Courtauld Gallery Room 11, 10/12/2022-07/05/2024
Lillian Browse Memorial Exhibition, Browse and Darby, London, 27/11/2006-01/12/2006
Second Nature, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2000-03/09/2000 ...More
A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983 ...Less
Lillian Browse Memorial Exhibition, Browse and Darby, London, 27/11/2006-01/12/2006
Second Nature, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2000-03/09/2000 ...More
A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983 ...Less
Literature
A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 67
Fig. p. repr.
cat. no. 67
Fig. p. repr.
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed by artist : lower right hand corner : : M.S.
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