Lot 15
15
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)

Portrait of Patricia Preece

Details
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Portrait of Patricia Preece
signed, inscribed and dated 'Stanley Spencer/Sept-Oct 1931' (lower right)
pencil
19½ x 13½ in. (49.5 x 31.8 cm.)
Exhibited
Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Stanley Spencer, September - December 2001, no. 10.
Hamilton, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Journey into Ecstasy: The Art and Collection of Tom La Pierre, April - July 2003, catalogue not traced.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Patricia Preece, born in 1900, was a student at the Slade and had been a pupil of André L'hote in Paris. Preece met Spencer in a teashop in Cookham in 1929, where she had been living with the painter Dorothy Hepworth, and the couple married in 1937. Within a few days of the wedding, Spencer had committed adultery with his divorced wife Hilda. Both Hilda and Patricia were frequent subjects for Spencer.

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