This is a painting that I loved from the very first moment I laid my eyes on it.
It is the colours! The colours! the Colours!
Sir Matthew Smith CBE.
“Apples” 1919-20 oil on canvas .
© by permission of the copyright holder.
Image credit: Tate
The Catalogue Entry in Tate’s website reads:
N05760 APPLES 1919–20
Inscr. ‘MS’ b.r. and ‘1919 or 20’ on back of canvas.
Canvas, 18 1/4×21 1/2 (46×54·5); a 3/4 (2) wide strip along the top was previously turned over a smaller stretcher.
Purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons (Knapping Fund) 1947.
Coll: Purchased by Mrs Cyril Kleinwort from the artist through Arthur Tooth & Sons, July 1942, and sold by them to the Tate Gallery on her behalf 1947.
Exh: (?) London Group, November 1919 (45); Lefevre Galleries, July–August 1942 (13), as ‘Apples (1919)’; Tate Gallery, September–October 1953 (10, repr. pl.6); R.A., October–December 1960 (41).
Lit: Rothenstein, 1952, p.234, repr. pl.31.
Repr: John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, 1958, p.100 (in colour); Rothenstein, 1962, pl.3 (in colour).
Sometimes known as ‘Apples on a Dish’, it was originally entitled ‘Apples’ and was painted either in 1919 or early 1920 in the artist’s Fitzroy Street studio.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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. During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1949, Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1954.
He married Gwen Salmond and their relationship broke up when he entered into an affair with Vera Cuningham. Smith lived, worked, and exhibited in England and France.
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