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Carolyn Leder, The Early Work of Sir Stanley Spencer: An Examination of the Influences on his Art, unpublished M.A. Report, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1968, p. 35, illustrated pl. 10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