Seated Woman

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.