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Matthew Smith

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This is the first full scale biography of the painter Matthew Smith. Smith was the son of a rich and cultured Yorkshire manufacturer, but soon felt impelled to rebel against the Victorian taste of his father and his class. He failed to impress the tutors at the Slade, went to France to see what the modern movements there had to offer and returned to mingle in the circles round Sickert and Fry. His grim experiences in the First World War forced him to sort out his priorities both as a man and an artist. Augustus John and Jacob Epstein were close friends. He was shaken by personal tragedies, but well into old age he seemed able to attract the love of cultivated and attractive younger women. There have beeen several retrospective exhibitions since his death in 1959, notably at the Royal Academy and twice at the Barbican.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Release: July 07, 1997

ISBN: 0571173365

ISBN 13: 9780571173365

Matthew Smith

3.3/5 ( ratings)

This is the first full scale biography of the painter Matthew Smith. Smith was the son of a rich and cultured Yorkshire manufacturer, but soon felt impelled to rebel against the Victorian taste of his father and his class. He failed to impress the tutors at the Slade, went to France to see what the modern movements there had to offer and returned to mingle in the circles round Sickert and Fry. His grim experiences in the First World War forced him to sort out his priorities both as a man and an artist. Augustus John and Jacob Epstein were close friends. He was shaken by personal tragedies, but well into old age he seemed able to attract the love of cultivated and attractive younger women. There have beeen several retrospective exhibitions since his death in 1959, notably at the Royal Academy and twice at the Barbican.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Release: July 07, 1997

ISBN: 0571173365

ISBN 13: 9780571173365

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