ARR * Smith (Matthew, 1879-1959). Reclining Woman, pencil on cream laid paper, signed with initials lower right, and additionally inscribed à Thomas Good, a few minor marks to sheet edges, torn without loss towards upper right corner, some light surface marks, 195 x 270 mm (7.6 x 10.65 ins), laid down on modern backing card, gilt frame, glazed (cracked)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Thomas Alfred Good (1901-1970), English poet, who spent a good part of his life in Europe, including spells in Aix-en-Provence in the late 1930s, and from 1946 to 1950, where he became friends with both Augustus John and Matthew Smith, a fellow francophile, who made three portraits of the writer. Michael Hamburger (1924-2007), poet and critic; Claire Hamburger, daughter.