Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.
Dancing couple I
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September 23, 01:17 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.
1891 - 1959
Dancing couple I
numbered 2/23 denoting p. 23 of Spencer Scrapbook Vol. 2 (upper right); signed with initials, titled and indistinctly inscribed (on the reverse)
pencil on paper, squared for transfer
unframed: 40.5 by 28cm.; 16 by 11in.
framed: 58.5 by 43.5cm.; 22¼ by 17¼in.
Executed circa 1943.
We are grateful to Carolyn Leder for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Lord Astor, Cliveden
Anthony d'Offay, London, where acquired by Peregrine Pollen in 1979 by whom gifted to the present owner
London, Anthony d'Offay, Stanley and Hilda Spencer, 27 September - 28 October 1978, no. 21
Carolyn Leder, Stanley Spencer: The Astor Collection, Thomas Gibson Publishing Ltd., London, 1976, no. 81, illustrated p. 74
Drawn some years after their divorce, this depicts Stanley Spencer and his first wife Hilda (the artist Hilda Carline), dancing in the cottage Chapel View, Burghclere. She wears a dress and high heels, her hair in a bun as usual, while he is dressed informally in socks and pyjamas, and sports his lifelong fringe. On the left is a stove, familiar from other drawings.
The Spencers lived at Chapel View while he painted his outstanding murals in the Sandham Memorial Chapel (now National Trust). The pictures commemorate the First World War. With notable generosity his patrons, Mary and Louis Behrend, built the chapel and the cottage, and financed the artist while he worked on the project.
Carolyn Leder.
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