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Seated Woman
1915 · Watercolor and ink on paper
11 x 9 7/8" (27.9 x 25.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Matthew Smith
British, 1879–1959
Post-Impressionism
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Masters of British Painting, 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
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Matthew Smith was a British painter known for sensuous, thickly applied oil paintings of still lifes, nudes, and landscapes executed in a deliberately expressionistic manner. Working primarily in the first half of the twentieth century, he favored bold, non-naturalistic color and vigorous brushwork that prioritized tactile surface over representational precision. His approach to paint as a material in its own right positioned him apart from both academic convention and the geometric abstraction of his contemporaries.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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