Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)

Out walking, Hilda (recto); Tying a shoe lace (verso)

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Out walking, Hilda (recto); Tying a shoe lace (verso)
indistinctly inscribed and dated 'June 12th (about) 194[?]' (recto, lower right); inscribed 'I have done one or two drawings not from book 22 because being in/loose pages they get lost. The one on page 5 is the right half of/the one in Scrap book (... on lid.) No 1. Page 46. Yesterday I spent/hours hunting for a small drawing of a man caining [sic] a chair & a woman/& child standing by. It was a favourite drawing of mine & it is not/where it should be. I had it in a little envelope./Jan 1st 1947. The drawing on page 4 is a storing apples scene./It is a memory of seeing B & K doing it in Cookham. Each apple/is carefully wrapped in paper. It is from book 22/July 20th 1949. I have just found the drawing of caining [sic] the chair/found it about 3 days ago. I was today putting drawings to/gether & reading above saw that I had not recorded the/find. Some months ago I tried to remember it & did another study/of it. It is interesting to see the difference. I had wanted the (below)/scene of shoe lace tied up to have been outside the dining room/window, but as there was the door step it had to be the Fernlea/kitchen window at the side of which was the kitchen door.' (verso)
pencil, squared for transfer
15¾ x 10¼ in. (40 x 26 cm.)

Provenance

Astor Collection, 1976.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Peregrine Pollen, 1979.

Literature

C. Hayes, The Scrapbook Drawings of Stanley Spencer, London, 1964, no. 58.
C. Leder, Stanley Spencer The Astor Collection, London, 1976, no. 135, p. 29, illustrated p. 101.

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay, Stanley and Hilda Spencer, September-October 1978, no. 25.

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Lot Essay

Spencer's 'Scrapbook' drawings which he worked on throughout the 1940s number over one hundred and fifty squared studies and depict vivid events from Spencer's past, and actual and visionary domestic scenes. Many drawings (including the present work and lot 54) are copiously inscribed with thoughts and ideas.

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