Bidspirit auction | SIR MATTHEW ARNOLD BRACY SMITH

SIR MATTHEW ARNOLD BRACY SMITH (GIRL WITH RED HAIR) - Whimsical portrait of a girl with red-hair. Measuring 20 x 22 framed painting only 14 x 16 inches. Fine condition. Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith, (born October 22, 1879, Halifax, Yorkshire, England died September 29, 1959.Sir Matthew Smith, CBE 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 PasschendaeleFrom a Prominent California Collection.