Sir Stanley Spencer R.A.

Wilfrid A. Evill, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Paintings and Drawings by Stanley Spencer, 25th July - 7th September 1947, cat. no.95 (as Portrait of an Old Man);
Hampstead, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of the Greater Portion of a Collection of Modern English Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, March 1955, cat. no.20 (as Head of Old Man);
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part III- section 1) cat. no.17 ( as Head of Old Man);
Brighton, The Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.239.

 

Elizabeth Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer, Phaidon Press, Oxford and London, 1945, illustrated pl.34 (as Portrait of a Man).

The sheet is sound, not laid down and is undulating slightly. There is an extremely tiny tear in the lower right corner, a tiny loss along the lower half of the right edge and a spot of dirt in the upper right corner. The sheet has discoloured slightly, but otherwise the work is in good overall condition. Held under glass in a painted wood frame with a cream mount. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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