Title
Jugs against vermillion background
1936-1940
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Still life with jugs and clay figure
Jugs against vermillion - Date
- 1936-1940
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64.5 x 80.5 cm sight; 91.0 x 106.5 x 6.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., red paint "M.S.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Olley and the Sam Hughes Memorial Fund 1992
- Location
- South Building, lower level 2
- Accession number
- 27.1992
- Copyright
- © Sir Matthew Smith Estate
- Artist information
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Matthew Smith
Works in the collection
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About
'Jugs against vermillion background' and 'Still life arrangement I' also in the Gallery's collection, were both painted in Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France, where Matthew Smith lived between the years 1936-40.
When looking at Smith's still lifes of this period many of the objects he used, such as the round table, the jugs, and the clay figure appear repeatedly. In Smith's 1947 exhibition 'Paintings by Matthew Smith of the years 1938-40' at Arthur Tooth & Sons, London eighteen of the twenty three works exhibited were still lifes; six with the same title 'Still life with clay figure'.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
British and French paintings and drawings 1884-1992 from Browse & Darby, Robin Gibson Gallery, Darlinghurst, 07 Mar 1992–01 Apr 1992
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Margaret's Gifts, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 04 Jan 2020–22 Mar 2020
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 160. cat.no. 2010
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Robin Gibson Gallery, British and French paintings 1884-1992, Sydney, 1992. cat. no. 8
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Provenance
Browse & Darby, London/England
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from Robin Gibson Gallery 1992. Purchased from the exhibition 'British and French paintings and drawings 1884-1992 from Browse & Darby' 7 March - 1 April 1992
