Lilies in a Jar

Copyright

© the Estate of Sir Matthew Bracy Smith
Image: Courtauld
ⓒ Work in copyright. All rights reserved.

Maker


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)

Object Number

P.1982.LB.411

Mode of Acquisition

Lillian Browse, gift, 1982

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

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”.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed by artist : lower right hand corner : : M.S.

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, Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2000-03/09/2000
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A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983
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Literature

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 67
Fig. p. repr.

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