Study for 'Saint Francis and the Birds' and domestic scenes

細節

Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Study for 'Saint Francis and the Birds' and domestic scenes
signed 'Stanley Spencer' (lower right) and inscribed 'Old man adoring (left) servants in attic & right Fly proprietor & wife in Bedroom' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil, squared for transfer on two sheets
4 x 13½ in. (10.1 x 34.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1935.

來源

Archibald Stirling of Keir.
His sale; Christie's, Glasgow, 22 May 1995, lot 421.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The central section of this drawing is a study for Saint Francis and the Birds, 1935 (Tate Gallery: K. Bell, Stanley Spencer A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, no. 164) and the left and right hand sections are studies for The Domestic Scenes, (Bell nos. 191-200) a series of nine works that Spencer painted during 1935-6.