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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untitled (ThreeWomen)
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Oil on linen canvas, circa 1964. 660x914 mm; 26x36 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired from the Detroit Artists Market (circa 1964); private Michigan/Florida
collection; thence by descent to a private collection.This painting was owned by a lady from Grosse
Pointe, MI, who took painting lessons from Hughie Lee-Smith at the Grosse PointeWar Memorial
in the early 1960s.
This painting by Lee-Smith is a very fine and unusual example of his mid-career work from his
“metaphysical phase” in the early 1960s.This painting’s intense, bright light gives this sunny scene
little of the period’s later brooding atmosphere. Many of these paintings, however, do share figures