Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Christ and the Doctors
pencil and brown crayon on graph paper, backed with cloth
24 x 34¾ in. (61 x 88.3 cm.)
Executed in 1944. There is a red crayon sketch of a foot and a male figure by the same artist on the reverse
Lot Essay
Another version of this composition is illustrated in C. Leder, Stanley Spencer The Astor Collection, London, 1976, no.104, p.87, from Vol. 3, p.14 of the Astor Sketchbooks.