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Lot 61AR

Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith
(British, 1879-1959)
Tiger Lillies and Roses 46.3 x 38.4 cm. (18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

13 June 2018, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith (British, 1879-1959)

Tiger Lillies and Roses
oil on canvas
46.3 x 38.4 cm. (18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
Painted in Paris, circa 1930

Footnotes

Provenance
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London, 17 September 1936, where purchased by
Mr. Edmund Arnold, thence by descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
Leeds, Temple Newsam, 12 July-14 September 1942, cat.no.18 (where lent by Edmund Arnold)

Literature
John Gledhill, Matthew Smith, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2009, p.150, cat.no.323

Edmund Martin Arnold (1927-2017) was a long-standing trustee of the Leeds Art Fund and held the position of Honorary Treasurer between 1944 and 1954. The Fund was established in 1912 and is one of Britain's oldest art gallery "friends" organisations. Its core aim is to enrich the visual life of the city by making purchases of art works for display at the Leeds City Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall. In his role with the Fund Arnold often travelled to London and Paris on the hunt for exciting acquisitions for the city. It was on these trips that he also made personal acquisitions, building a fine collection of contemporary British and Continental works.

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