Study for 'The Resurrection'

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Study for 'The Resurrection'
inscribed with artist's notes and figure studies (on the reverse)
pencil and oil on canvas-board
10 x 14 in. (25.3 x 35.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The present work relates to Spencer's large-scale work The Resurrection, Cookham, 1927 (Tate, London) about which Spencer wrote, 'The other resurrecting ones [people] are doing the simpler jobs of enjoying the peace. They have resurrected from a state of rest into a new state of rest, the lively and productive state of peace. And so they are, as it were, at home before they have got right out of their graves. Some have got right out and are showing the perfection of doing nothing' (Tate Archive no. 733.3.1, see F. MacCarthy, exhibition catalogue, Stanley Spencer An English Vision, Washington DC, British Council and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1997, no. 13).

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