Almanack Study: Tea Time (recto)

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Almanack Study: Tea Time (recto)
pencil and watercolour
9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 29.8 cm.)
Idea for Tea in the Hospital Ward (verso); and fifteen further study sheets, subjects include study for cast being carried, pencil, red chalk and gouache, squared for transfer, 10 x 7 in. (25.4 x 17.8 cm.); Idea for the Betrayal [First version]; Figures folding sheets; pencil, watercolour and oil on paper, 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.) and smaller (16)

Lot Essay

Reclining figures having tea were used by Spencer to illustrate January in 'The Almanack', published by Chatto & Windus in 1926, and illustrated with twenty five pen and ink drawings by Spencer. The subjects, Dick and Kate Foster, a friend from the Slade School, take tea from a tray which Carline and Spencer had brought back from Sarajevo in 1922. (See K. Bell, Stanley Spencer, Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1980, p.93. (See also lot 11 for another Almanack idea).

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