Cut out figures

Cut out figures

细节
Cut out figures
pencil, coloured crayon, pen and black ink on card
5 in. (14 cm.) high, and smaller
and a preparatory sheet of studies (in a Kodak box) (28)

拍品专文

It is likely that these figures, based on Hilda and others, and cut out of Royal Academy exhibition invitations circa 1956, were created by Spencer as imaginary viewers of paintings, perhaps for the Church House scheme of paintings which was never built.