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Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism.
Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism.
View all 60 artworks. Matthew Smith lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of British Post-Impressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Sir Matthew Smith (born October 22, 1879, Halifax, Yorkshire, England—died September 29, 1959, London) was an English painter of colorful still lifes, flowers, portraits and nudes, and landscapes of Cornwall, England, and the south of France.
Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art.
Matthew Smith is a passionate and an instinctive painter, naturally impatient of rules and suspicious of them as tending to compromise individuality; and, as already noted, his grasp of structure fluctuates.
Smith was born in Halifax and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. From 1908 he spent a large amount of time in France, briefly attending Matisse's art school in Paris. Smith is chiefly known for his richly coloured, sensuous nudes and still lifes, but he also...
