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Property from the Estates of Dr John & Mary Esther O'Driscoll, Kildare, Ireland

Sir Matthew Smith

Still Life with Vase of Flowers and Fruit

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estates of Dr John & Mary Esther O'Driscoll, Kildare, Ireland

Sir Matthew Smith

1879 - 1959

Still Life with Vase of Flowers and Fruit


signed MS (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 60 by 50cm.; 23½ by 19¾in.

framed: 77 by 66.5cm.; 30½ by 26in.

Executed circa 1940s.

Gifted by the Artist to Cathleen Mann, and thence by descent to her daughter, the Marquess of Queensberry

Her Sale, Christie's London, 20 March 1970, lot 55

Crane Kalman Gallery, London, August 1970, where acquired by the family of the present owners and thence by descent

John Gledhill, Catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings of Matthew Smith, Farnham, Lund Humphries, 2009, no. 627, illustrated p. 235