Property from a Distinguished English Collection
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.
Hilda Choosing a Dress
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A.
1891 - 1959
Hilda Choosing a Dress
signed with initials and dated 36 (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 66 by 51cm.; 26 by 20in.
framed: 87.5 by 73cm.; 34½ by 28¾in.
Executed in 1936.
We are grateful to Carolyn Leder for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
The Leicester Galleries, London
Alastair Hunter by 1951
Acquired circa 1968 by the family of the present owner and thence by descent
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Stanley Spencer, June 1936, no. 24
London, The Leicester Galleries, Stanley Spencer, November 1942, no.32
Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Sir Stanley Spencer, 9 September - 7 October 1961, no.14
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1976, no. 45
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1977, no. 39
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love, 1991, no.13, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue pp. 50-1
London, Sotheby's, British Council Exhibition, British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, 2 - 11 October 1992
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, temporary loan, 2009 - 2021
Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of Paintings, Phaidon, London, 1992, no.195, illustrated p.133
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