Idea for Builders of the Tower of Babel (recto)

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Idea for Builders of the Tower of Babel (recto)
pencil
6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 11.4 cm.)
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. invitation to Harold Gilman exhibition (verso); and a postcard with a study for The Glove Shop, (recto) pencil, squared for transfer, figure study (verso); and two further postcards with figure studies, pencil (recto and verso) (4)

Lot Essay

The finished painting, The Glove Shop, (Private Collection), 1959, (Bell 444) was the last figure painting that Spencer completed. It was painted between April and May 1959. It formed part of the Shop series and commemorated a shop in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, which Spencer visited with Daphne Charlton in 1940-41. (see K. Bell, op. cit., p.517).

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