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

Resurrection among Flowers

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Resurrection among Flowers
signed 'Stanley Spencer' (lower right), inscribed indistinctly '... Sarah Tubb + heavenly visitors. This ... /direct from the disciples or Holy Ghost visiting the villagers/scheme. As here the old woman lived ... next to the/newspaper shop. the shopkeeper ... card ... is very/looked at. Some more items ... form suitable/to an easil picture was that of children playing marbles/outside kitchen door .../... with a disciple. Other disciples or Holy Ghosts sit/... + watch the children. All these oil paintings/are now referring to work all together premature + .../as only I know from being ruthlessly taken from their/context. In a corner by this kitchen door where there/... larder stood another disciple or Holy Ghost/... with the birds and the ivy growing in the/larder. That is the St Francis + the birds picture .../... as I wished and intended that in the .../... some of their own children returning/... the baptism as children in our oil .../through the church yard ... the return from a bathe see/+ witness their parents resurrecting from it. But still that/Parents Resurrecting oil painting suffers for being taken/from its context + painted before I was ready /to do so. Another big oil "By the River" is from the Madonna/series. In about 1922-3 I did a series for the Cana scheme/... in the house + the .../... + a number of compositions on/... paper of people preparing to go to the marriage/The first lot of the Cana series consists of eight .../signed compositions thus.1. ... of the couple by the mantlepiece/...' (on the reverse)
pencil
15½ x 10¼ in. (39.3 x 26 cm.)

Literature

C. Leder, Stanley Spencer The Astor Collection, London, 1976, no. 128, p. 29, illustrated p. 98.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is an idea for a Resurrection, a subject which Spencer adopted for several oil compositions.

See lot 53 for a note on Spencer's 'Scrapbook' drawings.

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