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

The Marrow Bed

Details

Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
The Marrow Bed
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1926.

Provenance

Purchased by J.L. Behrend at the 1927 exhibition.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, where purchased by G.G. Shiel in October 1967, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1982, lot 53.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1988, lot 121.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 2008, lot 50, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

K. Bell, Stanley Spencer A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, p. 412, no. 110, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Goupil Gallery, The Resurrection and Other Works by Stanley Spencer, February 1927, no. 74, as 'Pumpkins'.
London, Leicester Galleries, The J.L. Behrend Collection, May 1962, no. 42.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, British Painting 1900-1950, October 1967, no. 10.
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery, on loan from 1969.
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery and Odney Club, The Gerard Shiel Collection of Stanley Spencer Paintings, July 1975, no. 12.

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Lot Essay

'The more real and natural I made a drawing or composition the more intense and beautiful it was ... in destroying the physical realness you destroy the spiritual ... its essential beauty is its realness' (Stanley Spencer quoted in K. Bell Stanley Spencer London, 1992, no. 18)

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