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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUINSHED WEST COAST COLLECTION
SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A. (1891-1959)
Study for 'Adoration of Old Men'
Details
SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A. (1891-1959)
Study for 'Adoration of Old Men'
signed 'Stanley Spencer' (lower right)
pencil on paper, squared for transfer
22 ½ x 26 ¾ in. (56.5 x 68 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.
Study for 'Adoration of Old Men'
signed 'Stanley Spencer' (lower right)
pencil on paper, squared for transfer
22 ½ x 26 ¾ in. (56.5 x 68 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 March 1978, lot 68.
with Ivor Braka, London, where purchased by Mr and Mrs Charles St George in May 1986.
with Ivor Braka, London, where purchased by Mr and Mrs Charles St George in May 1986.
Literature
K. Bell, Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, p. 450.
Exhibited
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love, January - April 1991, pp. 15, 100, no. 12, illustrated.
London, Tate Britain, Stanley Spencer, March - June 2001, p. 184, no. 79, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, September - December 2001; and Belfast, Ulster Museum, January - April 2002.
London, Tate Britain, Stanley Spencer, March - June 2001, p. 184, no. 79, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, September - December 2001; and Belfast, Ulster Museum, January - April 2002.
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