Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.

BEATITUDE 3: SEEING

Lot Closed

November 17, 02:21 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A.

1891 - 1959

BEATITUDE 3: SEEING


oil on canvas

unframed: 54 by 50cm.; 21¼ by 19¾in.

framed: 73.5 by 69cm.; 29 by 27in.

Executed in 1938.


We are grateful to Carolyn Leder for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

Arthur Tooth & Son Ltd., London

Sir Edward Hayward, Adelaide, by 1948

F. Partridge

Sale, Christie's, London, 1 March 1968, lot 179, where acquired by D. W. Hughes

Acquired from the above, 9 July 1968, and thence by descent to the present owner

Maurice Collis, Stanley Spencer, Harvill Press, London, 1962, p. 245

Carolyn Leder, The Early Work of Sir Stanley Spencer: An Examination of the Influences on his Art, unpublished M.A. Report, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1968, p. 35, illustrated pl. 10

Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Phaidon Press, London, 1992, no. 274c, illustrated p. 460

Adrian Glew (ed.), Stanley Spencer: Letters and Writings, Tate Publishing, London, 2001, p. 186