Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.
Hilda and Me by Cottage Door
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Stanley Spencer
1891-1959
Hilda and Me by Cottage Door
inscribed Panel in Hilda Memorial Scheme (on the reverse)
pencil on paper, squared up for transfer
unframed (sheet): 40.5 by 27.5cm.; 16 by 10¾in.
framed: 63.5 by 48.5cm.; 25 by 19¼in.
Executed circa 1943-4.
We are grateful to Carolyn Leder for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
The Astor Collection
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner, circa the 1980s
Carolyn Leder, Stanley Spencer: The Astor Collection, Thomas Gibson Publishing Limited, London, 1976, cat no.80, p.26, illustrated p.73.
London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Fifty Drawings from the Astor Collection, 2 - 30 June 1976, no. 80, illustrated in the exh. cat. p.73
The drawing is an invented, retrospective scene, recalling Spencer’s marriage to the artist Hilda Carline. A small girl, clearly representing their elder daughter Shirin (born 1925), can be glimpsed behind her parents’ legs. She was a young child at the time they were living in Burghclere, in the cottage Chapel View (the presumed setting for the drawing), while the artist was painting his murals in the Sandham Memorial Chapel. The Hilda Memorial Scheme was part of his longed-for Church House, planned (but never built) as a successor to the chapel at Burghclere.
Carolyn Leder
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