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People handing in their crosses; study for the mural at Burghclere Chapel
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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
People handing in their crosses; study for the mural at Burghclere Chapel
inscribed 'drawing for Resurrection of soldiers in Macedonia./In the centre is Christ. The soldiers are so con-/vinced of the meaning of the cross that they find/peace in the study & contemplation of it. They/study it as calmly as we might study twice one/and two, only the fact of the cross & the under-/standing of it brings rejoicing and love. That is/why some of the men in this drawing are em-/bracing & kissing it. In this picture the cross is/meant to symbolise the fact that nothing is/lost whose sacrifice has been right.' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil
13¾ x 9¾ in. (35 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1928.
People handing in their crosses; study for the mural at Burghclere Chapel
inscribed 'drawing for Resurrection of soldiers in Macedonia./In the centre is Christ. The soldiers are so con-/vinced of the meaning of the cross that they find/peace in the study & contemplation of it. They/study it as calmly as we might study twice one/and two, only the fact of the cross & the under-/standing of it brings rejoicing and love. That is/why some of the men in this drawing are em-/bracing & kissing it. In this picture the cross is/meant to symbolise the fact that nothing is/lost whose sacrifice has been right.' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil
13¾ x 9¾ in. (35 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1928.
Provenance
Hilda Spencer.
Miss Shirin and Miss Unity Spencer, by whom given to the Vicar of Cookham.
with Austin Desmond, London, where purchased by the present owner, April 1998.
Miss Shirin and Miss Unity Spencer, by whom given to the Vicar of Cookham.
with Austin Desmond, London, where purchased by the present owner, April 1998.
Exhibited
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Drawings by Stanley Spencer, 1955, no. 37.
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