Idea for Kit Inspection, 1930

Details

Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (Cookham 1891-1959 Cliveden)
Idea for Kit Inspection, 1930
pencil, watercolour and collage
25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm.); and smaller
(4)and three further study sheets, including watercolour study of a soldier with an undone puttee

Provenance

The Stanley Spencer Studio Sale; Christie's, London, 5 November 1998, lot 276, where purchased by the present owner's father and thence by descent.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

There is an inscription (on the reverse and not in Spencer's hand) indicating that the present idea for Kit Inspection, is the preliminary working drawing for the scene. The oil painting of this subject is at the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and is recorded by K. Bell (op. cit.) as no.130k. The soldier with the undone puttee also relates to the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere; the finished oil version of this figure appears in the centre of the east wall of the chapel, The Resurrection of Soldiers (National Trust), 1928-29, (Bell 130h).

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