A lane in the Cotswolds

Details

Gilbert Spencer, R.A. (1892-1979)
A lane in the Cotswolds
signed 'Gilbert Spencer' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1930.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1979, lot 128, where purchased by The Reader's Digest Association Inc.
The Reader's Digest Association Inc., their sale; Christie's, 19 November 2004, lot 50, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

In 1930, Spencer stayed a number of times with the Principal of St John's College, Oxford, Austin Lane Pool and his wife Vera, in various houses in the Cotswolds. In his memoirs, the painter recalled that the family, 'seemed to adopt the habits of Michaelmas hirelings by changing houses no less than four times. The family moved like farm labourers, piling all their belongings into a wagon' (see G. Spencer, Memoirs of a Painter, London, 1974, p. 70).

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