Provençal Landscape

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Matthew Smith was primarily a colourist but there is a firm compositional structure in his paintings. Here, the tower on the horizon provides an almost unnoticed focal point for the flowing forms and luscious colour harmonies. Francis Bacon much admired him: 'He seems to me to be one of the very few English painters since Constable and Turner to be concerned with painting – that is, with attempting to make idea and technique inseparable… the image is the paint and vice versa'. Smith was passionate about France and spent much of his time there during the 1920s and 1930s.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Provençal Landscape

Date

c.1935

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm

Accession number

K2896

Acquisition method

presented in memory of George Falk by Millicent Falk and her children, John and Ann, 1964

Work type

Painting

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