The month of August: on the beach

Details

Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
The month of August: on the beach
black ink
8 x 13¾ in. (20.3 x 35 cm.)

Provenance

with Piccadilly Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner, December 1980.

Exhibited

London, Piccadilly Gallery, Sir Stanley Spencer R.A. A Collection of Paintings and Drawings, 1978, no. 30.
London, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer R.A, September - December 1980, no. 94.

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Lot Essay

The present work was one of twenty-five drawn for The Almanac commissioned by Chatto and Windus in 1926, in which the artist used some of the ideas he had incorporated in The Resurrection, 1924-6 (Tate Gallery).

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