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

Details

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

Near the River, Sarajevo

oil on canvas
10 x 14in. (25.5 x 35.5cm.)

Painted in 1922

Provenance

Mrs Vernon Gattie
South London Art Gallery, London

Exhibited

London, Arthur Jeffress, Stanley Spencer, ?SR4/3
Liverpool, Blue Coats Gallery, An Honest Patron: A Tribute to Sir Edward Marsh, 1976, no.?
London, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer, Sept. - Dec. 1980, no.70 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Lot Essay

Spencer visited Bosnia in 1922 with the Carline family with the specific intention of painting Moslem tombs and mosques of the kind which he had seem in Macedonia during the First World War
(See K. Bell, Stanley Spencer, R.A., Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, 1980, p.83)

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